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From: siegel@endor.harvard.edu (Rich Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Globals in Device Drivers, LSC 3.0 ??
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Date: 23 Feb 89 23:30:46 GMT
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In article <36372@bbn.COM> levin@BBN.COM (Joel B Levin) writes:
>In MPW, the driver glue does not allocate the global storage block;
>you have to do it in your open routine.  I feel fairly confident that
>the same is true for THINK C, since the glue has no way of knowing how
>big a block to request.

	In LightspeedC, the determination of the global space size is made,
and the glue will automatically allocate dCtlStorage for the necessary
amount.

		--Rich




Rich Siegel
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