Re: malloc under Lattice C V5.05

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From: Fred Fish
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 1990 21:46

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In article <6620@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>(As an aside: most 68000 compilers I've used in the past have returned
> pointers in A0 and ints in D0. Seems like an obvious move. I guess Manx
> and Lattice had other priorities.)

It does seem obvious, but most of the compilers I've worked with that
did so ended up being modified to copy the value from A0 to D0 just before
returning, so that buggy programs (such as the one that started this
thread) would continue to run without change.

-Fred

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Subject: Re: malloc under Lattice C V5.05
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