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Subject: Atari ABAQ and MJC PDCC compiler

One of the local shops is traveling around Scotland showing off
the developer's ABAQ, which is supposedly available "real soon
now" here in Britain.  (I'll have a chance to see it next week --
will post something if worthwhile.)

On a different note, I have a Mega ST2.  When I tried the PD CC
compiler, it worked fine until I had to reboot the system a few
days later.  It then would go into an infinite loop when doing
the assembly stage!  After much experimentation, I found that
everything works fine so long as my free mem (largest chunk
thereof, as returned by Malloc( -1L ) ) was less than about half
a meg.  If it went any higher than that, presto: infinite loop!
So now I have to (:-) boot up with 1.5meg worth of ramdisks to be
able to use this compiler, which, by the way, I like very much.
It's great for quick and dirty programs!

Has anybody run into this before?  I don't know what happens on
1040's or upgraded 520's...  I have only tried this on the Mega
ST2.

Cheers!
--
Eric S Fraga, Department of Maths and Computer Science, Dundee University
 e.s.fraga@uk.ac.dundee.primea
 e.s.fraga%uk.ac.dundee.primea@nss.ucl.cs.ac.uk