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From: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: What is wrong with the Sumacc C compiler
Message-ID: <444@psu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 02:05:29 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 19 02:05:29 1987
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Reply-To: smethers@psu-cs.UUCP (Paul Smethers)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Portland State University; Portland OR
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In article <1102@cadnetix.UUCP> pem@cadnetix.UUCP (Paul Meyer) writes:
>For maximum memory efficiency, explicit Segment Loader calls should be
>put in an application's main event loop, as is done automatically by
>Lightspeed C and can be done explicitly in Megamax C.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^
Is this true?  I'm unaware of LSC doing anything funny in the event loop
(and if they do, how do they know how to find an application's event loop?)

I'm sure this is a missunderstanding, since it is the programmer's
responsibility to put calls to unload segments into the event loop.

Paul Smethers