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From: plav@cup.portal.com (Rick M Plavnicky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: "chip" qualifier for Aztec C (V5.0d)?
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Date: 13 Apr 91 20:14:33 GMT
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dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) recently wrote:

>In article <21925@shlump.nac.dec.com> withers@nitmoi.enet.dec.com (George A. W
>
>>In some previous article gone by the wayside in the great
>>Assembly/C Battle, Matt Dillon mentioned that Dice had
>>Amiga-isms such as the "chip" type qualifier to force a
>>single variable into chip RAM like SAS/C AND Aztec C.	I
>>only recently upgraded to v5.0d and I didn't see mention
>>of this in the manual so does such a qualfier exist and, if
>>so, what is it?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>George
>
>    Well, I *assumed* that Aztec had added it, I don't have 5.0d myself.
>    If they haven't, well, there are no excuses left for them.
>
>				    -Matt
>
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This comes up every so often.  Manx currently does NOT offer the ``chip''
keyword in their product.  (Current product is referred to as 5.0e, but
signs on as 5.0d dated Sep 30 1990)

However, there WAS some mention made on their support BBS recently:

<begin included material>

   MESSAGE: 5492                              DATE/TIME: 04-04-91  6:44pm
   FROM   : JEFF DAVIS (SYSOP)                RECEIVED : NO
   TO     : PAT HEUVEL                        PRIVATE  : NO
   SUBJECT: Compiler Suggestion               THREAD   : YES
   FOLDER : D, "Amiga Folder"
   
   We are going to add the chip keyword, probably for the release after 
   the 5.2 release.
   - Jeff Davis

<end included material>


Anyway, Matt's right: there's no excuse.


Disclaimer: I bought and use Manx's compiler, but it sure does have its
            shortcomings.

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