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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
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Subject: Re: How store extra data at the end of an executable?
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Date: 17 Apr 91 08:07:19 GMT
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In article <2904@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>I reiterate: you should not try to "append a picture file to the end of
>[your] executable file" but rather "arrange for a picture file to
>be included in your program file."  This you can do, in the worst case,
>by turning the picture file into an assembly (or C!) source file,
>assembling (or compiling) it, and linking with the resulting .o file.
>
>Example using my DB (it doesn't matter what compiler you ultimately use):
> (DB example deleted)

I use Allan's linker (ALN) instead:

aln -p -i picture.neo _titlpic -o titlepic.o

This produces an object file, titlepic.o, that contains the NEOchrome
picture at label _titlepic which can then be accessed as a structure.
I should add of course that the picture will not be on a 256 byte
boundary and so you can't just point the hardware at it (unless you have
an STE or a TT of course).

>============================================
>Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
>reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt

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