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From: topping@pansy.cis.ohio-state.edu (brian e topping)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW 3.0 C #pragma dump
Keywords: pragma dump, pragma load
Message-ID: <57082@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 89 18:20:26 GMT
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Reply-To: brian e topping <topping@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science
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I have had a lot of problems with #pragma [load|dump] also.  Mostly
with load.  It seems that C freaks if there are command line defines
(-d option) in place that werent there at dump time.

I use load & dump in a file I call "includes.h", which is a slightly
modified version of Dave Burnards "LOADDUMPDEMO.h".  Depending on
#defines, it will either use or create a dumpfile.  I modified mine
so that it will always use the dumpfile unless the makefile
determines the dump is out of date, and then recompiles it with
the -c option, so an empty object file is produced.  If anybody
wants this, send email.  It really helps.

I don't know that I have found a pattern to the errors yet, and the
one I usually get (can't remember right now) is so cryptic that
I am not sure that I understand it.

Why didn't Apple put an explanation for these errors in an appendix
of the C manual?  Don't say to reduce duplication costs, cause all
of the include files that used to be in the back of the manual are
no more.

Brian Topping
<topping@cis.ohio-state.edu>