fons@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (03/23/89)
Could anyone tell if the static data limit for MPW 3.0 is greater than 32K?
In addition is there an enlargement of maximum code segment size?
Paul Fons
University of Illinois
Coordinated Science Laboratory
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Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A.
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Fons@uxh.cso.uiuc.eduech@pegasus.ATT.COM (Edward C Horvath) (03/27/89)
From article <53100002@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu>, by fons@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu: > Could anyone tell if the static data limit for MPW 3.0 is greater than 32K? > In addition is there an enlargement of maximum code segment size? There is a compiler option in MPW C 3.0 to permit >32K data (I haven't looked at the pascal 3.0 manual yet). Segments can be >32K (and could in 2.0), but there remains the constraint that all externally-referenced entry points in the segment have to be in the first 32K (segment-loader offsets). I had the pleasant experience tonight of actually doing a compile in BACKGROUND under MultiFinder, using MPW 3.0. This was using (*ahem*) the Aztec 3.6 tools, unchanged (and they laughed when I added spinning cursor support!) to compile, assemble etc. under control of a shell script (output of MPW make). Being able to say (in effect) "make &" pretty well doubles my productivity at the Mac. I just took MPW 3.0 out of the box, and (despite intensive use of MPW 2.x for almost two years) it looks like it'll take a couple of weeks to a couple of months to come up to speed. The boys in Cupertino have been very busy, and they have added a LOT of VERY NICE stuff to the MPW environment. Enough nonsense about how expensive MPW is: this product is a class act. The only disappointment is that I'll need a massive memory transfusion before I'll be able to use the symbolic debugger; pity, if it is up to the standards of the rest of the package it'll be nice to have (eventually). Oh well, I've gotten this far with TMON... =Ned Horvath= Disclaimer(s): I used to work for Manx but don't any more; I have nothing to do with C++ except working for the same company as research!bs; and I admire Apple from afar (mainly the far side of my checkbook).