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Article #12921Re: GNU's ANSI C compiler
From: Doug Merritt
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 00:08
Date: Wed, 31 May 1989 00:08
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In article <18890@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>The question arose concerning the size of the GNU ANSI C compiler.
>
>One major problem deals with the HUMONGOUS "#defines" in the GNU sources, many
>of which are multi-thousand bytes long. Lattice poops out at 512 bytes, and
>Manx died with some other error(s).
The X Windows system has the same problem. Their solution is to
include a C preprocessor (with big limits) in the distribution.
This is, I believe, descended from the famous DECUS cpp.
If you want I could mail it to you. Don't know whether it'd be an easy
or a hard port. I suspect easy, given its history.
Doug
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!ames!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: GNU's ANSI C compiler Message-ID: <361@xdos.UUCP> Date: 31 May 89 00:08:56 GMT References: <89May26.160931edt.9325@ois.db.toronto.edu> <May.26.17.43.05.1989.24253@pilot.njin.net> <18890@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 19