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From: shebanow@Apple.COM (Andrew Shebanow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW LINK error - Global data area size.
Message-ID: <22148@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 14 Dec 88 02:00:38 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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MPW 3.0 supports global data areas larger than 32K.
You can get it from APDA.

I should point out though that if your problems are caused
by large arrays, you would be better off modifying your
source code to use a pointer or handle and allocate the
array dynamically. It will make your program faster, and
it gets rid of many silly limitations like "No one would
ever have more than 1000 rects in a drawing, right?". (Of
course, no one would ever accuse Apple engineers of making
horrible assumptions like that :-)

Andrew Shebanow