staff@cadlab.sublink.ORG (Alex Martelli) (03/31/90)
Oh yes, still about "real product" development - probably the tool we miss most is a real LINKER - something like the PLINK product for MSDOS, or just about any good old Unix LD - something that will NOT barf and/or die when you throw at it a couple of megabytes worth of executable to build out of a few thousand routines (each in its own segment, I believe - we have to thank the HUGE memory model for that). With the Microsoft linker, we are at the level where we can just barely link everything "plain", but if for example we take just one routine out of a library and try to add it to the link as an obj (say to test a modification to it without adding it to the lib yet) we overflow some critical internal table (instead of giving the error messages intended for this case it goes crazy and fingerpoints to the compiler... but just put the obj into the lib and the link goes OK, so we know the compiler is a scapegoat here!). Any advice would be appreciated. -- Alex Martelli - Email: staff@cadlab.sublink.org, alex@am.sublink.org Phone: ++39 (51) 371099, ++39 (51) 250434; fax: ++39 (51) 366964