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From: olson@endor.harvard.edu (Eric K. Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: LightSpeed C gripes
Keywords: LightSpeed C no good, Mac 2, Gnu Chess
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Date: 17 Jan 88 14:19:55 GMT
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In a recent article Fred Hollander writes [not responding to me]:
>Please elaborate on your gripes with MPW.  I was considering this and
>would like to know about any problems or deficiencies that you are aware
>of.

The last time I used MPW C it translated strings in Trap Calls silently
from C to Pascal and back.  I couldn't deal with that at all.  Does it
still do this, or has that been made optional?

-Eric

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