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From: sinteur@ooc.uva.nl (John Sinteur)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: new interface files makes MPW pascal -108
Summary: new mpw interface files make pascal act strange
Keywords: problem mpw pascal
Message-ID: <20683@slice.ooc.uva.nl>
Date: 8 Jun 91 15:06:05 GMT
Organization: uvabick
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When I received the Golden Master system 7 CD-ROM, I happily copied
the MPW Pascal interface files from it - the docs said it contained
the new 7.0 info and stuff, which was what I've been waiting for.

My sources have stopped compiling however, and pascal aborts with
a -108 error (which is a 'not enough room in heap zone' or some such).

I found it very strange that changing interface files made pascal
ask for that much memory - and even a non-multifinder, init-clean
4 Mb LC was not enough, so I guess there's something else going on.

I was able to find out that the {$IFC ...} clauses that precede
every *.p file was part of the cause, since they somehow influenced
from which files symbol tables were read from resource. I also
found out that compiling the same file (like this: program test;
uses types; begin writeline('blah!'); end.) did not always get the
same behaviour with respect to loading these symbol tables. I never
bothered to look at this before, so I am quite out of my depth here.

Can somebody tell me what is going on? Or give me a manual reference?
Do I have to go back to older interface files?

Thanks in advance,

-John