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From: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: macro buffer size for Lattice and/or Manx
Message-ID: <951@applix.UUCP>
Date: 8 Apr 89 19:48:04 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden)
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In article <16lNl52RH61010VfuDk@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> shs@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Steve Schoettler) writes:
>In article <97851@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> dinsdale@sun.UUCP (Tom van Peer) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to circumvent the limitations on the length of macros
>>imposed by both Lattice and Manx?
>
>I keep running into this too.  I think the only solution is to port
>gnu cpp, and use it to preprocess for the manx or lattice compilers.
>

This has been recently addressed on bix.

Use the large compiler (lc1b).  You get it by supplying a -g switch to lc.

The lc1b first pass _seems_ to be able to eat huge macros of the kind
found in gcc or xwindows. 

-scott