Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!ames!apple!motcsd!xdos!doug From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: GNU's ANSI C compiler Message-ID: <361@xdos.UUCP> Date: 31 May 89 00:08:56 GMT References: <89May26.160931edt.9325@ois.db.toronto.edu> <18890@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt) Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley) Lines: 19 In article <18890@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes: >The question arose concerning the size of the GNU ANSI C compiler. > >One major problem deals with the HUMONGOUS "#defines" in the GNU sources, many >of which are multi-thousand bytes long. Lattice poops out at 512 bytes, and >Manx died with some other error(s). The X Windows system has the same problem. Their solution is to include a C preprocessor (with big limits) in the distribution. This is, I believe, descended from the famous DECUS cpp. If you want I could mail it to you. Don't know whether it'd be an easy or a hard port. I suspect easy, given its history. Doug -- Doug Merritt {pyramid,apple}!xdos!doug Member, Crusaders for a Better Tomorrow Professional Wildeyed Visionary "Welcome to Mars; now go home!" (Seen on a bumper sticker off Phobos)