Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer Subject: Re: PD Linkers Message-ID: Date: 26 Mar 91 23:41:43 GMT References: <17932@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Lines: 30 >In article <17932@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnettj@pookie.crd.ge.com (Janet A Barnett) writes: >Does anyone know of a public domain (or other essentially free) Amiga >Object Module Linker that includes the source code? At titan.ksc.nasa.gov, there is a PD Amiga linker under development called FLINK. >Alternately, is there a linker that supports the EXT_COMMON hunk described >in the AmigaDOS Tech Ref Man? (Bearing in mind that this is the orignal >TchRefMan, not the later Bantam version in which this hunk type may >well have disappeared.) Yeah, it's the pits that SAS's BLINK doesn't support EXT_COMMON. It was a cause of much grief for the Amiga GCC port. FLINK should support EXT_COMMON. It's not finished yet, but the author is looking for feedback on what should be in a linker. If only there were already a linker that supported EXT_COMMON, but to the best of my knowledge, ALINK, BLINK, and DLINK do not. >I tried ALINK from the Workbench 1.2 Autodocs release. It didn't complain, >but it didn't appear to do anything either. (I tried it with the MAP option >to see what it was doing and it hosed my hard disk, thank-you-very-much.) ALINK seems to be rather broken to put it politely; I could never get it to work either, although I'm glad that I didn't provoke it into hosing my hard drive. -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |