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From: ech@cbnewsk.ATT.COM (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Think C 32K global data limit: workaround?
Message-ID: <1672@cbnewsk.ATT.COM>
Date: 19 Dec 89 16:10:31 GMT
References: <5837@internal.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1664@cbnewsk.ATT.COM> I wrote:
> So far, the MPW linker won't give non-apps globals, hence no method 
> dispatch tables.

From article <5837@internal.Apple.COM>, by lsr@Apple.COM (Larry Rosenstein):
> See Tech Note #256.  

I've seen it.  It's an excellent example of "tell me what you need, I'll
tell you how to live without it."  The suggestion is incomplete -- e.g.
initialized data is not addressed -- and requires the connivance of the
underlying application.  I don't have that connivance with, say, DAs.
Or other drivers.  Or FKEYs. Or any other code resource intended to exist
independently of a PARTICULAR application.  Or even with HyperCard -- the
example in the technote requires careful attention in the Hypercard script
to making sure the XCMD-with-persistent-data is properly set up and torn
down -- an error in that script hoses memory at random, a very user-
unfriendly XCMD to put in the hands of "the rest of us."

I am not satisfied that my needs have been addressed.

=Ned Horvath=