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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Mac C Compiler?
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Date: 24 Sep 90 18:48:45 GMT
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We have a problem: we have a CD ROM disk that has a lot of data on it
that we need. Far too much to copy to a hard disk (well over a gigabyte).
The only CD ROM reader we have is for a Mac. We therefore would
like to run the programs that use this data on the Mac. (This is
a Mac IIci with 4 megabytes.) We already have the source code for the 
programs. It compiles and runs fine on PCs and Unix boxes (using a
tiny subset of the data copied to a hard disk.)

I tried compiling this on the Mac with a borrowed copy of Lightspeed C
and it failed. These are large programs - a couple of megabytes
of global data and several very large subroutines (that compile to
somewhere between 50 and 125 kbytes of code on varying computers).
Lightspeed C apparently thinks it is too big. One program has
about 85K of compiled-in static data.

Are there other C compilers for the Mac that will do this? We would
like near-total ANSI C compatibility (you can forget trigraphs and
locale support :-) ), but it must support full stdio stuff including
console IO, and a command line would be nice. Basically, we just want the
Mac to look like a normal computer. We don't have any use for or desire
to worry about any Mac specific things.

(Price is important - we can buy a CD ROM reader for our 386 PC for $700,
and then it would be trivial.)


Doug McDonald