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From: cck@cunixc.columbia.edu (Charlie C. Kim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: What is the Status with SUMACC
Message-ID: <834@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 88 11:15:49 GMT
References: <36665@linus.UUCP> <730045@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Reply-To: cck@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Charlie C. Kim)
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <730045@hpcilzb.HP.COM> tedj@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Ted Johnson) writes:
>
>>   I have just discovered a thing called SUMACC.  I assume it is a
>> cross compiler for 68000 code to be compiled on something like a SUN,
>> and than ported over to a MAC.  Does anyone know where or what it is.
>>
>>   I have looked on sumex-aim, and I can't find it there.
>
>I thought it was on SUMEX.  I also thought it was obsolete.
>
Sumacc was included as part of the 4.3 distribution.   I would not
exactly consider it obsolete, but it certainly less than useful right
now because the libraries are very much out of date.  In addition, the
library trap code uses self-modifying code which makes it useless on a
Mac II.

It is still useful for compiling general 68000 code direct.  Also, it
only runs on vaxen.

>>   Is there anyway I can get my little hands on such a wonderful thing
>> such as this.  It could improve my developing by days, or even weeks...
>
>Why not just invest the $100.00 it takes to get a REAL compiler (LSC, LSP)?
>...

It was great using sumacc to develop code for the 128k macs though --
the download phase usually took longer than the compile-link phase on
a 750.

Charlie C. Kim
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