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From: ech@poseidon.UUCP (Edward C Horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: AT&T C++ ports to the Mac?
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Date: 28 Jul 88 19:04:04 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Lincroft, NJ
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> We're about to adopt C++ as our standard language, and probably get the
> AT&T source, since we target several environments.  Has anyone ported
> the translator to the Mac?  I know it's a big program and thus would
> probably choke MPW or Lightspeed because of their 32K global data limit.
> But it seems to me that a port through Aztec C should be relatively easy,
> since it (reportedly) does not share the 32K restriction.

I haven't seen the latest AT&T version; the last attempt I heard of ('twas
not I) to attempt the port to Aztec bounced up against a 32-character
limit on extern variable names.  I don't know of any plans to up that limit.

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