Date   : Fri, 09 Oct 1992 02:28:00 GMT
From   : dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.uiowa.edu!news.weeg.uiowa.edu!vaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu!jdkirby@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Student Account)
Subject: z80 c cross compilers

I am also looking for a z80 c compiler. The application I'm
doing requires me to write the program on a PC (IBM) and 
download the program thru the serial port to the Z80 system
I designed. This part works since I wrote a monitor program
and installed it in the ROM previously. The serial transfer
works and I transferred a small assembly language program
thru it a couple days ago. The assembler I use is called ZAS
from Z-world. However, the application I'm working on requires 
a lot of table manipulation and variable tracking. This is a 
thing that a higher level language does very well without the 
programmer having to think much about it. Anyway, an individual
mentioned using Aztec C professional Cross Compiler and I would
like to try this but where do you find it. Another mail message
I got mentioned using BDS-C with a CP/M emulator on my PC.
This is not a bad idea because I have a copy of 80MATE which
supposedly should do this. However I'm about as fluent in CP/M
as most Americans are in Japanese, so this is not practical due
to the time constraints involved. Therefore, does anybody know
where I can find the Aztec software (for cheap) or an alternate
method of doing this without having to reinvent the wheel again?
Additionally, I can also try using a combination of the above methods
by compiling in C to assembly then assembling to machine code
afterwords. The ZAS assembler creates ROMmable code in INtel-hex
format and is very effective. Anyway, Thanks for any help you can provide.

John Kirby


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