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From: casseres@apple.com (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Another LSC 3.0 Question
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Date: 26 Apr 89 21:51:20 GMT
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In article <1527@internal.Apple.COM> casseres@apple.com (David Casseres) 
writes:
> I have what I hope is a simple problem.  In a simple LSC program, I want 
> to use the standard function atoi.  This is in the stdio library, and 
when 
> I link it in apparently all the code in the library gets copied, and my 
> code segment gets too big!  I can't believe this is supposed to happen.

Oops, I should have said the unix library, not stdio.

> I rooted through the library sources looking for atoi so that I could 
build 
> a custom library containing just atoi and a few other functions, but I 
> couldn't find it.  I think the compiler must be changing it to something 
> else.  Aaargh!

I subsequently found it, in the unix library.  It then became a simple 
(but annoying) task to make a little library containing just atoi and, for 
good measure, atol.

David Casseres

Exclaimer:  Wow!