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From: yurkon@CYCVAX.NSCL.MSU.EDU
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Subject: Re: What does this Blink error message mean?
Message-ID: <1990Dec10.223306.22375@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 10 Dec 90 22:29:08 GMT
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In article <1990Dec10.020128.18356@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Loren  Rittle) writes...

>Does anyone know what the following error message means?
> 
>Blink - Version 5.10                                                            
>Copyright (c) 1990 SAS Institute, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.                    
>                                                                                
>Error 502: __xcovf symbol - Distance for Reloc16 > 32768                        
>  First Reference in Unit libi77.c at offset 0000000c in file 
>    'work:f2c/libi77.lib'
>  To Unit ucxovf at offset 00002810 in file 'LIB:lcnb.lib'
> 

Sounds like you have used the SC (small code) option with the blink command.
If so leave it out.  If you are using a makefile check to see that it isn't
stuffed in there.

>I compiled all files with -b0 and with and without -r0, but
>I got this same error message each time.  I thought that -b0
>would avoid this type of 15-16 bit addressing problem. Anyone
>care to comment on this one?  PS, if you can supply the method
>needed to get around this problem, we (Amiga owners) will have
>the orignal Adventure and dungeon (ZORK I, II, and III all-in-one,
>well almost! :-) on our favorite machine.  What a nightmare it
>has been getting to this point (two days work),  I first had
>to port f2c (These babies were written before people knew
>what C was!), then convert the Fortran code to C...
>Loren J. Rittle
>--
>``In short, this is the absolute coolest computer device ever invented!''
>                   -Tom Denbo speaking about The VideoToaster by NewTek
>``Think about NewTek's VideoToaster!  Now think about the Amiga!''
>Loren J. Rittle lrg7030@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu