Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!wombat
From: wombat@nuchat.UUCP (Scott Lindsey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: APW C, anyone?
Message-ID: <990@nuchat.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 88 03:00:44 GMT
References: <670@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Organization: StyleWare, Inc.
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From article <670@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>, by rogers@ncrcce.UUCP:
> How suitable is the APW C compiler (and the GS itself) for these kinds of
> projects?  Can you indeed do "UNIXish" stuff on a IIGS?

My opinion is that smallish stuff is indeed feasible (for UNIXish stuff to be
used under APW).  I have a simple version of diff and fgrep that work fine.
I've got a rogue-clone that refuses to run, and it's not the source, as I had
it running on a Mac without much hassle.  I don't know if the C compiler
itself is problematic (prob. not), or if some of the libraries supplied are.
I suspect bank dependency problems in the libraries.  Rogue is 128K+ 
executable and has to be broken up into 3 segments, mininum.  The two utils
I mentioned each fit into a single segment easily and thus don't run into the
problems.  I haven't had the time to investigate the problems intensively,
though.



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