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From: andyp@treehouse.UUCP (Andy Peterman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: MPW 3.1 and stand-alone code
Message-ID: <632@treehouse.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 90 07:46:39 GMT
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In article <QbC66U200UhBE2xKdl@andrew.cmu.edu> ml10+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael A. Libes) writes:
>The problem comes at link time.  If I include the Runtime.o library I get:
>    "Data intialization not called..."
>If I remove that library I get:
>    "No data intialization routine..."
>
>What is the correct way to link this code resource?

Don't use globals.  The data initialization routine is used for
initializing globals (at least to zero).  If you're using strings, use
the -b or -b2 option to put these strings within the code. Check out
Tech Note 256 for a good explanation of writing stand-alone code.

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