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From: amanda@intercon.uu.net (Amanda Walker)
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Subject: Re: MPW 3.0 C #pragma dump
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Date: 8 Aug 89 22:09:03 GMT
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Well, I use a dump file of *all* of the Mac header files all the time,
as well as command-line definitions, and so on, without a problem.  However,
this leads to a big symbol table, and MPW C gets annoyed with you if you
are running vanilla MPW 3.0.

There's this little note on pages 349 & 350 of the MPW 3.0 environment manual
(in Chapter 12: "Writing an MPW Tool") that describes how to increase the
amount of stack space that the shell reserves for tools.  The default is
20K.  I increased mine to 128K, and suddenly all sorts of things became
much less bomb-prone...

This is not to say that MPW C 3.0 is reliable, though.  I am truly amazed
that Apple calls it a "release" version.  Grumble.

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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