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From: wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
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Subject: Re: A68k vs Lattice 'C'
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Date: 28 May 90 05:10:16 GMT
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Reply-To: wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson)
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I had some questions about using A68k as a cross-assembler on non-amiga
systems.
I got it to run ok on a SUN system. However on my IBM 
PC under Turbo C, it choked at places where space was Malloc'ed in a big
block, and then freed in smaller pieces, using free(ptr) where ptr was not a
pointer returned by a call to malloc. My real wonder is why the code works on
the Unix system... manual pages claim you can only free stuff allocated by
malloc. I don't know what behavior is standard on Amiga systems. Anyway, it
works pretty well otherwise, and it's nice to have the source.
  Another question is if the original modula 2 source for the Dr. Dobbs
68k assembler is available on line somewhere? I wanted to hack it to 
Turbo Pascal....
Clarence Wilkerson