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From: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Incremental loading on the HP9000s800
Message-ID: <1503@tub.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 90 17:25:39 GMT
Reply-To: net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann)
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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I'm trying to port an application to the HP-PA that dynamically loads
object files into the running program by using "ld -A".  So far I have
been unable to have /bin/ld to anything more useful than printing

    /bin/ld: Internal Error 4027 (Bad symbol address)

What exactly does this mean?

The exact invokation of /bin/ld I used was

    /bin/ld -N -x -A program obj.o -o output -lc

where "program" is the file name of the running program and "obj.o" is
the object file to be loaded (produced by applying "cc -c" to a source
file containing an empty function definition).

I have also tried to omit -N and -x and to explicitly supply an address
(by means of "-R addr" where "addr" is the current program break).

Thanks in advance for any help.  Please e-mail me a copy of your reply;
our news feed is unreliable.

Regards,
--
    Oliver Laumann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.
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