On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 8:21 AM TK Chia <u1049321...@caramail.com> wrote: > > > No recursion and no floating point will be blockers users need to keep > > in mind, but being able to build for 8bit micros like the 8080, Z-80, > > and 6502 is a definite plus.. > > The Cowgol page (http://cowlark.com/cowgol/index.html) says that the > lack of recursion is because most of the target platforms "don't really > support stack frames". I wonder if that means there will also be a > problem writing, say, thread-safe routines or re-entrant routines.
Likely. But if you need to do that, why would you write in cowgol? I am trying to imagine Honest to $DEITY threaded code on an 8 bit micro, and failing. Re-entrant code is a bit less of a stretch, but you'll still need stack space to keep track of the recursion, and that will bite hard. > Incidentally, the Cowgol author, Mr. David Given, also currently > maintains the Amsterdam Compiler Kit > (https://github.com/davidgiven/ack), which was reportedly used in Minix. > I think ACK might also be potentially useful for MS-DOS program > development. I missed that. I'd heard of th Amsterdam Compiler Kit. It might indeed. > https://gitlab.com/tkchia :: https://github.com/tkchia ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
