[comp.sys.ibm.pc] .obj format

vizard@dartvax.UUCP (03/11/87)

<munch munch>

	In what manual would I find the correct 'link'-compatable
format for .obj files? Any pointers would be helpfull.

		Todd Krein
		vizard@dartvax

mmm@gssc.UUCP (Preacher McLain) (03/16/87)

In article <5815@dartvax.UUCP> vizard@dartvax.UUCP (Todd Krein) writes:
><munch munch>
>
>	In what manual would I find the correct 'link'-compatable
>format for .obj files? Any pointers would be helpfull.
>
>		Todd Krein
>		vizard@dartvax


There is an article in the October 1985 PC Tech Journal entitled ".OBJ
Lessons."  It is quite informative, providing that you can get your hands on
that back issue...

-- 
			      Mitchell McLain
		    ...hplabs!tektronix!sequent!gssc!mmm
      Opinions are my own, not those of GSS (they're happy about that).

eager@amd.UUCP (03/31/87)

In article <5815@dartvax.UUCP> vizard@dartvax.UUCP (Todd Krein) writes:
>	In what manual would I find the correct 'link'-compatable
>format for .obj files? Any pointers would be helpfull.
>
>		Todd Krein
>		vizard@dartvax

The Microsoft .obj format is a bastardized and partial implementation of
the Intel OBJ format.  Microsoft uses comment records for some info, and
generates incompatible DEBUG records.  Intel has a document which describes
the .obj format in obscure and painful detail.  Combined with the PC-Tech
article (and reading object files, disassembling a compiler, etc. :-))
decoding or generating the .obj file should be a snap.  

My copy of the document cost about $18.00 + tax, etc.  Call Intel on
Bowers Ave. in Santa Clara, CA.

-- Mike Eager