Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!watcgl!wewallace
From: wewallace@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Bill Wallace)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LSC math libraries (68881 especially)
Message-ID: <5415@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Date: 4 Aug 88 16:48:05 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I've been playing around with LSC 3.0 specifically with the math
libraries.  Could someone tell me if everyone received math libraries that
contain none of the routines declared in math.h, only the same routines
but with an underscore prepended?  I recompiled with math881.c and things
work find but whats up?

Also if THINK is listening then here are some suggestions for the next
version:
  1) allow #defines to be set up as options the way unix cc -D macro=text
     works (only in a mac-like framework)
  2) allow both proto.h and math.h to be included.  This currently gives
errors for some reason.
  3) have the global searching done on ANY files, not only on those in the
current project.
  4) have a small default project so a single source file can be compiled
without having to make a project especially for it.
  5) allow an explicit search path for header files.  I have some large
     projects that are included in a number of other projects and it would
     be convenient to allow the header files for them to be kept with the
     project rather than where it can be currently found by the search
     strategy
  6) If unusual #defines are used then make them start with and underscore
     or somehow differentiate them.  I've found things like ABS to be a
     #define in some things and it interferes when porting large projects
     from unix or PC's.  (And yes, I LIKE PCs and MS-DOS)


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