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I am using Manx 3.6 a which supports pre-compiled include files.
For some reason, When I try to precompile a file containing
somthing like:

struct my_structure structure1= {
                                       a bunch of structure intializers
                                };

and then subsequently link it, I get a global called structure1, but
it is uninitialized. The program works fine if I don't precompile
but just include the file, but that means I'm always recompiling 
this big pile of structure inits. 
I realize that I may be going about the whole problem in a dumb way.
What's the smart way to initialize a bunch of structures that contain
20-30 element arrays of LONGS?  I mostly want to avoid making the
compiler chew on them every debugging cycle.
On another topic, 
I am using a snip of code from the PD PerfectSound to read an
a/d converter on the parallel port. this code (ACK! Pffft!) goes
to the hardware registers directly and works fine under 1.2 but
does not work under 1.3. I realize that this is just what MAMA
warned me about, but...but...but...
I don't have a clue how to do it the right way. I'm pretty sure that
the parallel device won't do the job, because I have to use BUSY, POUT
and SEL as outputs to tell the a/d which channel to sample.
Any suggestions or even references on this stuff would be greatly
appriciated.
                             thanks  steve collins
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