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In the review of MPW C in the current issue of Byte, it is stated that
a Mac program can't have a "code segment" longer than 32K, nor more
than 32k of static data. I was considering using a Mac II for some of
the research work I do. If this statement were true, a large number of
my Fortran and C programs won't run. I thought that the 68020 had a full
32bit flat address space, i.e. no segments at all. This would seem to
imply that I could write a program any size that will fit into 
memory; likewise for static (initialized) data. Lots of my programs
have more than 32K in strings and initialized numeric data alone.
The only experience I have had on a mac was in porting a fairly large
Fortran program (using Microsoft Fortran, which was just plain wierd.
It didn't HAVE static data at all. All data statements generated CODE!!!)
If a MAC can't run ordinary Fortran or C programs without recoding,
it is useless to me. (These Fortran programs all run fine on 
a stupid compiler we have for an FPS-164, which is EXACTLY fortran 77,
no less, and most emphatically no more.)

Doug McDonald (mcdonald @uiucuxe)