hobie@sq.uucp (Hobie Orris) (12/14/87)
I have been trying to port Moria to the Amiga, but the Manx linker has
been giving me a hard time. There are two very large arrays of structures,
about 26k and 44k compiled, which compile just fine, but which cause this vexing
error on link:
File <treasure1.o> Attempted to write outside of file bounds @52800! B=4455c,
v=e2a4,s=524f0
No mention of this sort of thing in the manual. This one I can probably get
around, but the second error looks a little more devious. Moria is really big,
around 350K, and it gurued in OpenWindow. I made a little test program to test
that my window opening code was correct, and of course it was. I saw that Open-
Window() first pulls the NewWindow pointer off the stack, then loads
IntuitionBase into a6, then jumps relative to it. In the monster Moria
executable (compiled, as was my test program, with +C +D +L) instead of loading
IntuitionBase into a6, it loads some random value (db named it as
_inventory_init+19c). Is there something I don't know about? Anyway, while
single-stepping, I patched the correct value in a6 and the window opened.
However, at closing time, the machine gurued again, due to the same cause I
suspect.
Any suggestions towards the solving of these two problems will be appreciated by
both me and all future Amiga Moria players!
Hobie Orris |
guest of SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Ont. |"There'll be no more giant leeches
{ihnp4 | decvax | ? }!utzoo!sq!hobie | When you find the good Lord Jesus"dawayner@well.UUCP (Wayne Nelson Abrams) (12/17/87)
In article <1987Dec13.231530.16616@sq.uucp>, hobie@sq.uucp (Hobie Orris) writes: > I have been trying to port Moria to the Amiga, but the Manx linker has > been giving me a hard time. There are two very large arrays of structures, > about 26k and 44k compiled, which compile just fine, but which cause this vexing > error on link: > File <treasure1.o> Attempted to write outside of file bounds @52800! B=4455c, > v=e2a4,s=524f0 I know of one other instance of this happening under similar circumstances. (Fairly large program) The hapless fellow informs me that on contacting Manx he was told that that particular message was due to a bug in the linker. Maybe you should get in touch with Manx and they may have some suggestions. One is probably not to have too many large statics defined. The other solution is to get Lattice .. :-) The Wayner