[Coco] getenv bug in cgfx explanation

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 12 December 2009, Lothan wrote:

>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>

>

>> As for your comment re there being 3 copies of the mouse in there, I

>> would suspect they are all identical, and this is caused by c.link only

>> making one

>> pass over the library(s) looking for dependencies.  Because it is

>> difficult

>> to predict backward dependency's, I have been forced to add 2nd copies of

>> stuff in the libraries I built back then myself, trig.l in particular.

>> Maybe

>> we should redo c.link to make another pass, say up to 3, over all the

>> libraries given if at the eof of the current pass, there are still un-

>> resolved dependencies?  (Note, it will make more passes if the library to

>> be

>> linked from is named more than once too) If after 3 passes it hasn't been

>> found, it likely is a real error and never will be, report it and die.

>

>I wonder if there's sufficient memory to build a dependency tree in the

>first pass. If so, this can be safely reduced to a two-pass link step:

> build the dependency tree in the first pass, merge the dependency trees

> (thereby removing modules that aren't needed by the mainline), followed by

> pulling out the dependencies from the .lib files in the second pass.

>

If not, that is what myram is for.  But I'd suspect there probably is in any 
coco3 with half a meg of ram.

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