jdb@mordor.s1.gov (John Bruner) (06/23/87)
I've been leafing through the April APDA catalog (which only arrived here last week), and I notice that a beta version of MPW 2.0 is now available. The description for the 2.0 C compiler says that the compiler is being modified to optionally generate 68020 and 68881 code and "to provide optional long word data and stack alignment." Does this mean that the compiler allows "int"s to be either 2 or 4 bytes long? Also, I recall reading somewhere that the version 2.0 compiler would optionally allow Pascal-style strings instead of C-style strings as arguments to Toolbox calls. (I assume this means that there are two sets of libraries.) Is either of these speculations true? -- John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) jdb@mordor.s1.gov ...!seismo!mordor!jdb (415) 423-4848
jww@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Joel West) (06/23/87)
In MPW C, int's are still 32 bits, as one might expect. Global
and stack-based variables and data structures can be aligned to
32-bit boundaries for a slight speed improvement and no loss of
compatibility. Like the Pascal compiler, 68020-only and 68881-only
code can also be generated.
In the interfaces, PARAMTEXT is no-glue, while ParamText remains glue;
speculation is these will eventually become ParamText and paramtext,
respectively.
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Joel West
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