johnl@ima.UUCP (11/20/84)
#N:ima:12700009:000:779 ima!johnl Nov 19 18:33:00 1984 Some kind soul sent a response to my plea about the MS assembler 1.25. Unfortunately, the semi-automatic sorting equipment in the electronic post office mangled the letter so badly that I couldn't read the return address. Whoever it was, thanks. Whoever it was said that a new version of both the assembler and the linker would be a great improvement over the old ones (and that since he was working on it, we should regard such claims with some skepticism.) Anyway, it seems that if an "extrn" statement occurs within the scope of some segment, the extern is assumed to be in that segment, even if it is declared far. Strange but true -- the manual even agrees. John Levine, ima!johnl or Levine@YALE.ARPA (Note: if the return address says, godot!johnl, don't believe it.)