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From: rayz@csustan.UUCP (R. L. Zarling)
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Subject: Re: C power questions
Message-ID: <114@csustan.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Jul-86 12:37:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  4 12:37:37 1986
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In article <60@hyper.UUCP> dean@hyper.UUCP (Dean Gahlon) writes:
>	One of the neat things available on their bulletin board is an 
>assembler that produces object code suitable for linking with C-produced
>object code. If you have a modem, I'd check it out (after 11 PM, since
>it's probably long distance).

Thanks for the compliment; Mark Rinfret and I wrote it.  If you want to
save long distance charges, send me a disk and postpaid mailer:
Ray Zarling / Dept. Comp. Sci. / CSU Stanislaus / Turlock, CA 95380

>	Oh, yes; another question that nobody seems able to answer is what
>the 'a' and 's' options on the compiler itself do. From a disassembly of the
>compiler, it looks like they're stored in some odd location, but what's done
>with them then, I don't know, and nobody else seems to, either.

The compiler, by default, assigns storage class "register" to any variables
which are declared without an explicit storage class.  This, of course, is
non-standard behavior, but is justified (?) by the fact that the C64 needs
all the help it can get in terms of code compactness and runtime speed.
The -a option changes this, so the compiler produces "auto" storage class
by default (standard C), and -s is for "static".