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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LSC Resources ... what is THIS for?
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Date: 29 Jun 89 01:09:37 GMT
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In article <10493@watcgl.waterloo.edu> jasmith@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Jeff Smith) writes:
>
>I am just getting started as a Mac II programmer and I am forced (by my boss)
>to use Lightspeed C. The compiler creates 5 different resource types:
>CODE, DATA, DREL, ZERO and SIZE. I understand the CODE and DATA resources, but
>I can't figure out what the other 3 are for. Can anybody tell me?

	CREL and DREL resources are used for runtime fixups related to
data initialization to a5-relative addresses and other such things, 
ZERO resources are used for data initializations to zero values, and
the SIZE resource is a standard MultiFinder partition size resource.

		--Rich



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 Rich Siegel
 Staff Software Developer
 Symantec Corporation, Language Products Group
 Internet: siegel@endor.harvard.edu
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 I classify myself as a real developer because my desk is hip-deep in
 assembly-language listings and I spend more than 50% of my time in TMON.

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