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\f2 1994 by NeXT Computer, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.\

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\pard\tx0\tx2520\tx2880\tx3240\f2\fs48\li1440\fc0\cf0 Developer Notes:
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\pard\tx0\tx2520\tx2880\tx3240\li1440\fc0\cf0 C Compiler 400 Series\

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Updated for cc-412, january 26th\
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\pard\tx0\tx2520\tx2880\tx3240\b\li720\fc1\cf1 Runtime libraries\
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\pard\tx1800\b0\li1440\fc0\cf0 The compiler runtime library libgcc is being updated from time to time while the compiler is still being developed.  Therefore the compiler links it in statically from /lib/
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\i0 /libgcc.a.  Once we get closer to release, the content should be moved to libsys.
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Features in test bed\

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\pard\tx1800\li1440\fc0\cf0 The following are features which have just been introduced, and are thus not enabled as default:\

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\b Shlib codegen;
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\b -fpic and
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\b -fPIC. 
\b0  (m68k only) Generate code for the new shared library scheme.  -fpic generates only indirections, while -fPIC generates indirections and position independent code.  We will figure out some better names for these flags later...\
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\b Floating Point Precision Control;
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\b -ffppc, -fno-fppc. 
\b0  (m68k and i386 only) Generate code which uses the new floating point precision control.  This should eliminate the need for -ffloat-store, and be fully ieee compliant.\
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\pard\tx0\tx2520\tx2880\tx3240\b\li720\fc1\cf1 Defines in C code\

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\pard\tx1800\li1440\fc0\cf0 The following is an exhaustive list of macros that affect how the compiler itself is compiled.  They are defined in various configuration header files:\

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\b NEXT_OBJC_RUNTIME. 
\b0  The compiler is build to generate code for the NeXT Objective-C runtime, as opposed to the GNU Objective-C runtime.\
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\b NEXT_SEMANTICS. 
\b0  Make the compiler a bit more sloppy on some issues to fit the NeXTSTEP development environment...\
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\b NEXT_LIBGCC_NAMES. 
\b0  Make the compiler use double underscore in front of libgcc functions.  If not defined, the compiler will generate tripple underscores there.\

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\b NEXT_PDO. 
\b0  The compiler is build to run in a NeXT PDO (non-NeXTSTEP) environment.  \
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\b NEXT_FAT_OUTPUT. 
\b0  Understand and interpret flags -arch and related to produce fat binaries and cross compile.  \
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\b NEXT_CPP_PRECOMP. 
\b0  Make the compiler driver and C preprocessor understand and use NeXT's precompiled headers. \
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\b OBJC_HPUX_PADDING. 
\b0  Hack in objc-act.c to make protocols structures size aligned on 8 bytes. \
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\b NEXT_PIC. 
\b0  The compiler is build to generate NeXT/mach-o PIC code, when the -pic flag is given to the compiler.  \
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\b NeXT_ASM. 
\b0  Used in the backend of the hppa compiler, to generate NeXT specific assembler instructions.  \
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