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From: stekas@hou2g.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: IBM-PC Loading problem.
Message-ID: <122@hou2g.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 13:44:53 EST
Article-I.D.: hou2g.122
Posted: Fri Dec  2 13:44:53 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 4-Dec-83 02:48:25 EST
Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ
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I've written a BASIC callable assembler routine for the PC
which I've tried to keep "relocatable".  To do this I one
simply has to take care to reference other segments *relative*
to the code segment of the entry point.  The trouble is that
I have hade to resort to ugly hacks to get the loader to control
the relative locations of data and code segments.

I've tried GROUPS, different segment typing and naming conventions
and nothing seems to work.  Even when I explicitly define the
location of a segment the loader puts it wherever it wants it. 
(The manual *does* say that you can't force a segment's location
this way.  Has anyone else dealt with this problem? Anyone know how
it's "supposed" to be done? I'm using the loader that comes with
DOS 2.0 and the IBM Macro assembler.

                                Thanks for any help,
                                  Jim   (..!hou2g!stekas)