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From: dougm@pnet51.cts.com (Doug Mcintyre)
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Subject: Orca/C
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Date: 23 Mar 89 20:25:16 GMT
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Oh by the way APW C does support large Arrays just fine. Just be careful when
allocating anything over 64k, use lmalloc, not a couple calls to malloc..

Anyway, I don't really know what all ANSI C requires of its librarys but Mike
said that he left out a few things that were for multitasking, that wouldn't
do anything on the IIGS..

Orca/C is going to try to be 100% compatible with APW C and be about 99% ANSI
C. As of right now I think that the only thing Mike had to change is that ANSI
C uses \p for a pointer type in printf, and APW C uses \p in strings to
represent pascal strings, so he went the APW C way.

I don't quite understand about adding keywords. Pascal is a pretty valid
keyword (I believe it is also used in the IBM compilers with another
meaning..) so from the above paragraph Orca/C will still have the APW C
meaning of pascal..

All other special compiler stuff is handled with the #pragma processor
directive which ansi c fully supports. All cda, nda support is through #pragma
as well as memory model stuff. The default is the APW C style memory model.
Also there are some nice things used by #pragma to make programming easier.


95% of the people who use APW C is going to use Orca/C. It is much nicer. APW
C in my opinion is never going to get its bugs fixed. My most anoying one is
that  sometimes it can't do preprocessor directives correctly.. What is the
difference between #if and #ifdef if the symbol defined as 1 or 0? APW C seems
to think there is a difference sometimes and wont compile #if SYMBOL, but does
just fine with #ifdef SYMBOL. I don't know of any bugs in the compiler per se,
but the preprocessor and the library could stand vast improvements..

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