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BCPL/README
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Zipped Apps » BCPL |
| Filename: | BCPL/README |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 02EA bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
b contains the compiler source; makefile makes it armlib.a and armlib.b contain the library source (asm & bcpl respectively); no makefile apparently. mclib is the only oddity, made by assembling mclibar: other mclibxr are for variants you don't want bin contains the executables: bcpl and join are the important things. The compiler does *not* generate aof (it predates it); linking is done at application startup time. It is vital for this to work that mclib is the first input file for join. alib.newlib contains the library binaries alib.libhdr is the library header. The compiler expects to find it in $.alib.libhdr (if you use just GET "libhdr"). As far as I'm concerned, you can do whatever you want with this. Harry
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