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From: bright@Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Zortech C++ vs Metagraphics Metawindow vs various linkers
Message-ID: <2227@dataio.Data-IO.COM>
Date: 29 Nov 89 19:43:53 GMT
References: <870@sys.uea.ac.uk> <24525@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: bright@dataio.Data-IO.COM (Walter Bright)
Organization: Data I/O Corporation; Redmond, WA
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In article <24525@cup.portal.com> Nagle@cup.portal.com (John - Nagle) writes:
<the BLINK provided with 2.0 won't handle an object file with "threads"
<in it

I fixed the problem with threads. You can download it from my BBS
at (206) 822-6907. The problem was I had accidentally deleted a line of
code in the thread stuff... it was never noticed because my code generator
never generates threads.

<      Instead of BLINK, I tried Plink86 Plus, the big linker from 
<Polytron.  It complained about a "B0" type record in the file "fclose.c"
<in the "ZLL" library from Zortech.

A B0 record is a COMDEF record. You'll find it documented in the
MSDOS Encyclopedia. It is necessary in order to specify common blocks
to the linker. Microsoft has made several extensions to the object file
format (some are undocumented). I'm surprised that plink86 won't handle
COMDEFs. Perhaps you have an old version of it?