niko@iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E) (02/12/91)
Two questions: 1) has anybody tried porting UNIX software to the Mac
using MPW -- is it a pain (> 32K array problems, 2 byte int problems,
#defined positive constants yielding NEGATIVE results when multiplied)?
2) I have a gif viewer for a DECstation (xshowgif) which shows some
(interlaced?) gif files but the mac doesn't show them correctly.
what's wrong, how do i convert them?
-- time@ice.com (02/12/91)
In article <1991Feb12.052204.10925@news.iastate.edu>, niko@iastate.edu (Schuessler Nikolaus E) writes: > Two questions: 1) has anybody tried porting UNIX software to the Mac > using MPW -- is it a pain (> 32K array problems, 2 byte int problems, > #defined positive constants yielding NEGATIVE results when multiplied)? MPW DOES NOT have the 2 byte integer problem! MPW (more accurately, the MPW C compiler) integers are 4 bytes (Thank god!). Arrays larger than 32K are also no longer a limit. New compiler options allow for arrays that are very long, but the code is slightly less efficient for these arrays ( OFFSET.W(Areg) versus OFFSET.L(Areg) ). Don't know about that #defined positive number thingy unless it was related to the 2 byte integer problem. tim. ------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Endres | time@ice.com ICE Engineering | uupsi!ice.com!time 8840 Main Street | Voice FAX Whitmore Lake MI. 48189 | (313) 449 8288 (313) 449 9208