west@calgary.UUCP (11/17/86)
I am having some difficulty with the version of cc that my brother has on his Amiga. (Who knows if there is even a version number on it) Occasionally, upon intoning ":cc it.c", cc loads into memory, then just returns to cli without compiling the file. (It doesn't load lc1, it doesn't give any error message) Does this have something to do with file dates? (We don't have a battery powered clock, and are too lazy to start preferences (or say "date *****") after each reboot. (This happens a lot when developing a program. eg infinite loop, illegal instruction etc, etc.) The second problem (perhaps related) is with pdmake. I don't really think it is related, because it happened with ":pdmake -n" last night. Essentially pdmake loads up, then returns to cli after saying "^D" on a separate line. We have never had this problem happen a second time if we immediately retype the exact line. Is there a fix? Is this an unheard of problem? The last problem has to do with blink. My brother replaced alink with blink from one of the fish disks, calling it alink (until we get around to changing the cc sources). It works very quickly! (what is the matter with alink, do they use linear lookups on symbols instead of a hash table?) However, it gripes about IntuitionBase being multiply defined when declared externally (not "extern"). This worked with alink. I changed the definition (after much heartache, due to the fact that it arbitrarily refrained from letting me know of a few UNdefined symbols) to "extern", and things are happy. Apparently some library, (not a .h file) is declaring IntuitionBase (not as extern), which is understandable, but why is the reaction of alink and blink different. The weirdest part is that GfxBase does not display this trait. -- Mechanic to autophile: "It hesitates on acceleration? Maybe it's the fact that your drive-shaft is still back at the corner." Darrin West Master's Unit (read: student) Department of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta. ..![ubc-vision,ihnp4]!alberta!calgary!west Brain fault (cortex dumped)