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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
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Subject: Re: Macintosh 'C' Compilers
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Date: 9 Apr 88 21:13:22 GMT
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1.) Microsoft does not make a 68000 C compiler.

2.) porting from Microsoft to the Mac is easier in LightSpeed C, than it
is in MPW, because Microsoft, the Mac O.S, and LightSpeed C all assume
that an int is 16 bits. MPW assumes 32, and it is a colossal pain.

3.) the 'require prototypes' mode of LSC is stricter then the usage of
prototypes in Microsoft (I've even had it catch bugs in the original IBM
program that the MSDOS compiler just skipped over.)

--- David Phillip Oster            --A Sun 3/60 makes a poor Macintosh II.
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --A Macintosh II makes a poor Sun 3/60.
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