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- From: aduncan@rhea.trl.OZ.AU (Allan Duncan)
- Subject: Re: Did AZTEC C V1.05g produce 8080 or Z80 ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.051624.9988@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
- References: <1jp8p7INNb29@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:16:24 GMT
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- From article <1jp8p7INNb29@tamsun.tamu.edu>, by jdb8042@tamuts.tamu.edu (John Donald Baker):
- > Well, I have Aztec C 1.06d and I have two versions of the compiler.
- >
- > 'CC' generates 8080 code only
- > 'CZ' generates Z80 code in 'extended Intel' format
- >
- > As someone once pointed out, the Z80 compiler really doesn't take full
- > advantage of the Z80's instruction set. I ran a small program through
- > both and didn't see any difference in the output.
-
- The IX and IY registers are used in certain cases, the nmemonics are
- generated with DEFB's, so that they pass through an 8080 assembler.
-
- > Besides, the library routines would have to all be in 8080 code anyway.
-
- Only if you didn't redo them in Z80 :-)
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