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From: jrb@petro.UUCP (Jon Boede)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Thanks!! (Portability Lives)
Message-ID: <470@petro.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Nov-87 12:15:54 EST
Article-I.D.: petro.470
Posted: Wed Nov 11 12:15:54 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Nov-87 11:17:34 EST
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Organization: G.M. Andreen & Associates, Inc. San Antonio, Texas
Lines: 22
Keywords: MC68000, PC/AT, SCO XENIX
Summary: 335,000 bytes ported with < 20 changed

I just wanted to drop a quick "thanks!" to all the people in this group who've
helped me solve problems I've had with memory models on the SCO cc compiler.

I abandoned the 8086 box I was using and ported my code to a '286 box last
night.

It was wonderful.  I sent 13,000+ lines of code, consisting of 115 library
functions, 18 "major" functions, and 45 utilities from a Motorola 68000 box
to a PC/AT clone with a total of only 23 bytes of changes to the Makefile.

All I had to do was set -Mm for the middle memory model and add -LARGE to a
couple of routines that did the "out of heap space" shuffle.  I didn't even
have to change any C source code (which suprised me).

Thanks again!!  This portability caca is pretty hip!!

Jon
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