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Subject: Re: Crafty for the Mac

Author: Guido Schimmels

Date: 03:56:45 08/19/98

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On August 18, 1998 at 13:55:29, John Scalo wrote:

>On August 18, 1998 at 05:04:03, Guido Schimmels wrote:
>
>>These functions are rarely used by mac-programmers, thus compiler-writers might
>>not spend much time on the C-library in their mac-implementations.
>>Steven Edwards SAN-kit also crashes badly with this compiler, which is another
>>strong indication something must be wrong with the C-library.
>>These experiences are from years ago with my 68K-mac, but it looks these
>>problems have carried over to the PPC generation, zzz,zzz,zzz...
>>
>>I would recommend try and replacing malloc() with NewPtr(), which can be
>>done quickly. Let me hear if it works !
>>
>>- Guido -
>
>I don't know what the problem is (haven't tried it) but there's nothing wrong
>with malloc(), at least not as implemented by Metroworks... The average mac
>hacker uses malloc() as much or more than NewPtr(), in my experience.
>
>We've cleaned a lot of shit up since the 68k days...

When I bought my compiler, Symantec was the 'official' compiler builder of
Apple's. With this compiler did come the source code of the C-library. I
wouldn't be surprised if Metrowerks 'adopted' this code. Nice to hear
they have at least done some bug-fixes - if this is the case.
But still, why doesn't Crafty run then ...

- Guido -



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