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From: JDA@NIHCU.BITNET (Doug Ashbrook)
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Subject: Re:  Problem with TML Pascal
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Date: 27 Jun 89 15:42:16 GMT
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> Earlier, I posted this message:
>
> >I'm having a problem with TML Pascal that I *hope* someone can help me
> >with.  I've written a fairly long program (~90 K by now) with quite a few
> >units (don't know if this is relevant to my problem or not) and everything
> >has worked fine until a day ago.  When I try to compile the main program to
> >disk, the compiling and linking goes fine but then at the end it gives me
> >the error dialog, "Error in writing to application file" (it compiles to
> >memory fine). So this is kind of scary, since if I can't get it to compile to
> >disk I don't have a program.  I've tried things like transfering files to
> >another disk and recompiling to that disk, but the same thing happens.  As
> >I said, this process *used* to work fine, but now...?  I can't think of
> >anything I did that would do it.
>
>
> Well, no one has responded to my article but I'm still having the same problem
.
> I did some further testing, however, and when I comment out a big chunk
> of code the program compiles to disk fine! So it would appear that the program
> is too big to be compiled to disk.  90K too big?  Has anyone had this problem
> themselves?  Please--any suggestions would be appreciated.  After all, I
> do want to be able to make my program executable.

I have written a program in TML Pascal (1.2A of the integrated version) that is
broken into 8 (or more) UNITs and results in a .SYS16 file that is about 176
blocks long.  I too have had problems with the linker, but mine seem to be
different.  I find that I must "compact memory" before beginning the compile and
then re-compile all UNITs (even if only some of them have changed).  When I do
this, the program links successfully.

I would strongly suggest that you copy your source files to a disk and mail it
to TML Systems with a note explaining your problem.  They seem to still have
some bugs in the linker.

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