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From: GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help with C.
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Date: 27 Feb 90 14:38:11 GMT
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On 22 Feb 90 10:50:38 GMT you said:
>
>I don't know about Aztek but Lattice has a limit on arrays of 65533
>when you use 16 bit integers and 4294967295 with 32 bit integers.
>I guess you can do something like this
>
>char *MEMORY;
>MEMORY=AllocMem(65536,MEMF_CLEAR);
>
>
     I suppose I could give that a shot.
>>
>>     The part I am concerned about is one of them mass assigns.  It looks
>> something like this:  MEMORY$F8 [] = { 0,0,0,0,179, ... }  The $F8 is new
>> to me.  I imagine that is means start assigning at MEMORY[0xF800] but I
>> can't be sure.  Anyone have any better ideas?
>
>That was one of the first problems I had during the port of Abermud.
>(I still haven't finished the port, but i solved the problem with $)
>
>The solution is that the $ is a part of the indentifier and you could
>discard it without any problems. ( just do it everytime it occurs )
>
     I was brain-dead.  I should've figgured that out.
>
>>
>>     Side note: the program was written for and compiled fine on my school's
>> mini.  I can't make heads or tails out of it, but figgured it may find
>> usefullness on the Amiga.
>
>It seems that the Amiga compilers and the Unix compilers have some
>differences in what's allowed in an identifier.
>
     Not Unix.  We have Unix machines, they just don't let us use them.

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