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From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Writing C code that works with both MPW and LightspeedC
Message-ID: <339@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 25 May 88 12:33:13 GMT
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Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
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Thanks for the posting of "compat.h".  This is indeed the better
approach when porting from LSC to MPW.

>I have found that using the Pascal interface exclusively results in
>smaller code [...]

It depends on what you are doing.  If you are writing a library which
has an interface that's portable to non-Mac machines, you'll have to
convert C strings to Pascal anyway, so doing the conversion in the glue
might actually save space as soon as a routine is called more than
once.  This doesn't hold for Points, though.  (In fact I would probably
have your approach, had it been available in MPW 1.0... :-( ).
--
Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
guido@piring.cwi.nl or mcvax!piring!guido or guido%piring.cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net