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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Globals in Device Drivers, LSC 3.0 ??
Summary: Ooooops
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Date: 24 Feb 89 14:16:22 GMT
References: <28152@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <36372@bbn.COM> <1262@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <1262@husc6.harvard.edu> siegel@endor.UUCP (Rich Siegel) writes:
|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 . . .
|	In LightspeedC, the determination of the global space size is made,
|and the glue will automatically allocate dCtlStorage for the necessary
|amount.

I spoke with misplaced confidence, unfortunately; I know something
about the Mac and MPW, but not LSC.  My apologies for any confusion I
might have engendered.

	/JBL
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