Re: C compiler for Mac: responses

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From: jww
Date: Fri, 29 May 1987 01:02

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In article <2068@emory.UUCP., ospwd@emory.UUCP (Peter Day {EUCC}) writes:
. From gatech!seismo!cmcl2!nyu-acf2.arpa!siritzky Tue Apr 28 11:44:13 1987
...
. 	... 	All of these C compilers
. will only allow you a 32K code segment - for the whole program. In our
. case this was way too little.
. I have since tried the MPW C. It is better than the others for my problems,
. although it still has the 32k limitation (I'm told that this is a problem
. with the Mac OS!). 
...
. Brian Siritzky, C.I.M.S., 251 Mercer Street, New York, NY 10012
. 		ARPA : siritzky@nyu
. 		uucp : ...!cmcl2!acf2!siritzky

It is certainly possible to make programs with segments . 32K
with MPW C.  The linker is quite keen on this, although any Macintosh 512
will crash when it sees one.

I believe your data segment is still limited to 32K, though.
-- 
	Joel West
	{ucbvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!jww	(ihnp4!gould9!joel if I ever fix news)
	jww@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu	if you must

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