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- From: utoddl@guitar.oit.unc.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
- Subject: Re: Manx C and Boopsi Question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.141957.20793@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- References: <BtuLL0.IuB@unx.sas.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:19:57 GMT
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- In article <BtuLL0.IuB@unx.sas.com> walker@twix.unx.sas.com (Doug Walker)
- writes:
- >
- > Franz Hemmer (hemmer@hemmer.adsp.sub.org) wrote:
- >> [...] the Manx library structure is different and
- >> more sophisticated than the standard Amiga (which SAS follows) library
- >> format. The Manx linker can use the standard Amiga format libraries
- >> because it mistakes them for object files and so includes the whole
- >
- >[...]The SAS/C system is certainly implemented
- >more robustly [than Manx's], since it can at least handle the
- >concatenated form of the library correctly.
-
- The Manx linker will handle it correctly as well if you use the +l
- option which tells it to treat the following file(s) as libraries.
- Franz is working hard in public to solve a non-problem. The Manx
- library structure is "different" for reasons of compatability with
- their compilers on other platforms. The "more sophisticated" claim
- is more subjective. These are all useful tools. There is room
- for competition.
-
- (Just trying to keep the compiler wars balanced wrt the facts.)
- --
- Todd M. Lewis / utoddl@guitar.oit.unc.edu
-