[fa.info-mac] Softworks C

info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (11/16/84)

From: garl@nlm-vax (Gary Letourneau)
   Has anyone out there been using the Softworks C system on a regular basis?
 I spent yesterday using it, and it seems to work fine for me (I like mouse-
 intensive development systems). I do have one issue which I'd like to address.
 The cmac.h header file is one big header file, and the user is supposed to
 edit out those parts not needed for a particular application. Now editing
 this file for each application seems to me to be a painful and time-consuming
 operation. A SUMACC-style partition of this header file into several different
 pieces seems to be in order. What do others using the Softwork C system do?

						garl@nlm-mcs
                                                Gary Letourneau

info-mac@uw-beaver (info-mac) (11/17/84)

From: olson@harvard.ARPA (Eric Olson)
I did an emergency programming project for the Mac in Softworks C,
and did just edit the cmac.h file to get what I needed.  I also had
to LINK with each .REL file missing and write down the unknown
externals, then reassemble the libraries with only those functions
in order to make the application fit in memory (a human-powered
function extractor).  I plan to split up ostraps, quicktraps, and
tooltraps and packtraps, as well as cmac.h so that I can select
just what I've used.  Of course, with a 512K Mac these problems become
much less troublesome.  I rather like that C, as I mentioned before.

Eric.