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From: AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: large GS programs in APW C
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Date: 20 Mar 89 22:59:00 GMT
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>Date:         Mon, 20 Mar 89 07:15:17 GMT
>From:         Scott Lindsey <claris!wombat@APPLE.COM>

About APW C (and/or MPW IIgs C?):

>You CAN have a program larger than a bank (remember my rogue-clone
>port?  [still being debugged]).  What you're basically limited to is
>1 bank (64K) of data.  The equivalent of _main() sets the data bank
>to the bank containing your data (singular) segment. [...] Now, you
>say, who on earth would want more than 64K of data?  How 'bout a
>program that needs 1.25Mb to run?

The 64K limit applies only to SIMPLE STATIC variables, right?  (Not
to arrays or to auto variables.)  I have a hard time imagining how
to use up all 64K.

Desktop programs like AWGS (or anything that lets you work with
multiple documents) doesn't need much global data anyway--just
allocate whatever you need from the memory manager when it's needed.

Does something come out of that 64K that I'm forgetting?

>Scott Lindsey
>Claris Corp.
>ames!claris!wombat
>wombat@claris.com