chad@lakesys.UUCP (Chad Gibbons) (03/21/89)
The XENIX programmer's guide lists option -A of ld as: Creates a stand-alone program whose expected load address (in hexadecimal) is num. This option sets the absolute flag in the header of the a.out file. Such program files can only be executed as standalone programs. I would assume from the terminology that these stand alone programs are ones that would be used at the boot: prompt upon system startup. However, I could be wrong. I was able to find more information pertaining to stand alone programs in any of the other manuals. Does anyone have a full idea of the extent of stand alone programs? Could they be used to create programs runable without any XENIX OS support? -- D. Chadwick Gibbons, chad@lakesys.lakesys.com, ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!chad