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From: cactus@zardoz.club.cc.cmu.edu (Todd Masco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: _AbsExecBase
Message-ID: <12884@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 2 May 91 17:44:09 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon Physics
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I recently decided to make a real effort at programming Assembly on
the Amiga (years and years ago, I played with it a bit on the Mac).
Towards this end, I bought the book Amiga Assembly Language
Programming, by Jake Commander.

I've been playing with some of the source code listed in it (using
A68k), and I've run into one puzzling thing:

When I try to link an object file containing a reference to
_AbsExecBase, the linker is unable to find the symbol in amiga.lib
(from PDC) or amigas.lib (from DICE).

Of course, when I replace _AbsExecBase with $0004, everything works
fine. 

Has _AbsExecBase been completely phased out as unnecessary, or are the
libraries I'm working with incomplete in this matter?

Unless it's something mind-shattering, reply by email, please.
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Todd L. Masco		| "Free speech is the right to shout 'theatre'
CMU Physics, Senior	|   in a crowded fire."


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Todd L. Masco		| "Free speech is the right to shout "theatre"
CMU Physics, Senior	|   in a crowded fire."