ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) (03/27/91)
>In article <17932@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnettj@pookie.crd.ge.com (Janet A Barnett) writes: >Does anyone know of a public domain (or other essentially free) Amiga >Object Module Linker that includes the source code? At titan.ksc.nasa.gov, there is a PD Amiga linker under development called FLINK. >Alternately, is there a linker that supports the EXT_COMMON hunk described >in the AmigaDOS Tech Ref Man? (Bearing in mind that this is the orignal >TchRefMan, not the later Bantam version in which this hunk type may >well have disappeared.) Yeah, it's the pits that SAS's BLINK doesn't support EXT_COMMON. It was a cause of much grief for the Amiga GCC port. FLINK should support EXT_COMMON. It's not finished yet, but the author is looking for feedback on what should be in a linker. If only there were already a linker that supported EXT_COMMON, but to the best of my knowledge, ALINK, BLINK, and DLINK do not. >I tried ALINK from the Workbench 1.2 Autodocs release. It didn't complain, >but it didn't appear to do anything either. (I tried it with the MAP option >to see what it was doing and it hosed my hard disk, thank-you-very-much.) ALINK seems to be rather broken to put it politely; I could never get it to work either, although I'm glad that I didn't provoke it into hosing my hard drive. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |
barnettj@pookie.crd.ge.com (Janet A Barnett) (03/27/91)
Does anyone know of a public domain (or other essentially free) Amiga Object Module Linker that includes the source code? Alternately, is there a linker that supports the EXT_COMMON hunk described in the AmigaDOS Tech Ref Man? (Bearing in mind that this is the orignal TchRefMan, not the later Bantam version in which this hunk type may well have disappeared.) I tried ALINK from the Workbench 1.2 Autodocs release. It didn't complain, but it didn't appear to do anything either. (I tried it with the MAP option to see what it was doing and it hosed my hard disk, thank-you-very-much.) AB