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In-Reply-To: <199307080232.AA28489@mars.let.uva.nl> from "Wouter van Oortmerssen" at Jul 8, 93 04:32:43 am
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From: "The Mighty Git" <johnm@cogs.susx.ac.uk>
To: wouter@mars.let.uva.nl (Wouter van Oortmerssen)
Cc: amigae@bkhouse.cts.com
Subject: Re: misc
Have a Wouter van Oortmerssen:
:>
:> >> Wouter,
:> >>
:> >> Could you/would you implement some kind of directive that forces data to be
:> >> placed in chip ram, like the Lattice C "chip" storage class specifier?
:> >>
:> >> -- Barry
:>
:> I probably could, but I find it a very ugly idea. small chipdata can always
:> be copied to chip after a program start (spritedata etc.). if the amount
:> of data is that large that it would be a waiste of memory to copy it,
:> (pictures, samples etc.) it shouldn't be _in_ the program in the first place,
:> but rather in a seperate file and read directly into chipram.
:>
:> Wouter
:>
Just my opinion, but by not implementing this you are forcing people to
use multiple files even if they don't want to. I think that E should be
as flexible as possible and thus cater for all people's possible wants
(even if it should appear ugly). I would greatly appreciate a CHIP
specifier.
--
The Git