yes, indeed, SDCC is PC based, and may not be to the taste of those wishing to be period-accurate and develop on the target systems.? I imagine the vintage compilers are all K&R style?? I should try it out that way to appreciate the feel.? I did trivially hack the rom to make the power-on default 115200 bps.
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My coming to this was somewhat roundabout, as I had used SDCC for other things before.? I needed to adapt crt0 for the board, and malloc didn't act the way I wanted, and then I got carried away with stdio (well, the missing FILE* stuff), hence the post if others had curiousity and wanted to save the trouble.? One can enjoy taking such excursions when it is not a paid effort for a client; lol!
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The generated code can be quite fluffy.? I guess that's what you get for the conveniences of the language on a 8-bitter.? (can't imagine the generated code for a 6502)
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I punted on scanf for the time being, but now I am distracted by thoughts of supporting the bank switching mechanism.? I suspect I would need to make some tool to plan linkage from the collection of object modules, and possibly generating thunks in non-paged memory.? Seems like a graph theory problem.
Anyway, some short term work popped up last week that will absorb me for the next 4 weeks, so I'll have to wait a bit for all that, alas.
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I'll check out the book you mention -- CP/M is definitely new to me.? Fortunately systems' surface area tended to be smaller back then.
cheers!
-dave
dave