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From: dgold@apple.UUCP (David Goldsmith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Editing > 32K text blocks
Message-ID: <372@apple.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 16:35:39 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 16:35:39 1986
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In article <1783@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eric@batcomputer.UUCP (Eric Fielding) writes:
>Or do anything else with chunks of data larger than 32K?  I am new to Mac
>programming, and can't understand why I can't make an array bigger than
>32K on my 1024k Mac+? Is this some kind of holdover from the days of 128K Macs
>or inherent in the operating system?

Neither.  It is a limitation of the compilers due to the fact that the 68000
only supports 16 bit offsets for its addressing modes.  The Memory Manager
will support any size object up to the limit of available memory.  Future
releases of development tools will probably remove this restriction.


-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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