Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ernie!bazyar
From: bazyar@ernie (Jawaid Bazyar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Orca/c bug followup
Message-ID: <1991Feb5.074558.12410@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 91 07:45:58 GMT
References: <9102032044.AA05781@relay.CDNnet.CA> <11676@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Feb5.020407.24118@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Sender: news@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
Reply-To: bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)
Organization: Mutation Testing Facility, University of Illinois
Lines: 29

In article <1991Feb5.020407.24118@nntp-server.caltech.edu> toddpw@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:

[mentions that he's thought of a good code generation model]
 Okay, as soon as I get a parser completed I'll hand over the stuff to you :-)
And I guess I did mean just 'compatible' with it's calling conventions.

>I suggest you DO NOT use the Orca library AT ALL. I believe we should construct
>a new library. I've had some fun playing with the .ROOT code (Twilight blankers
>in C, finder message to argc/argv converters, and so on) and I'm convinced that
>an awesome library could be written in 'a GS/OS state of mind' so to speak.

  hmm... sounds decent.  Since pieces of the Unix libraries are being put
together (someone IS working on curses, right?), I'm not terribly worried 
about them.  Most of the C library is trivial stuff (exception being qsort)
that could be reproduced, and reproduced WELL in a few weeks, or a couple
days by a few dedicated people. (the ORCA libs, not the Unix ones).

>I've got 2 megs -- will that help? Or does the source just need to be
>split up into manageable pieces?

  I swiped some RAM from Rob Knauerhase :-)  All he does is run TelCom,
anyway :-) (Until this C thing is finished, at which point he'll set
about compiling BSD 4.3 (or so he says) :-) ).

--
Jawaid Bazyar               | "I'm sure K&R have never heard of Mike." 
Senior/Computer Engineering |
bazyar@cs.uiuc.edu          | "That's okay. I'm sure Mike's never heard of K&R".
   Apple II Forever!        |  (discussion about Orca/C)