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From: howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cpm
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linker L80 Question
Message-ID: <490@cyb-eng.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 11:58:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 22 11:58:15 1985
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Organization: Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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> There's a bug in L80.  When searching a library, it encounters a
> module, and begins passing over the symbols to see if any are needed.
> If it passes over a COMMON block, then comes to an symbol which is
> needed, it gets a fatal system error in trying to back up to the
> beginning of the module and begin loading.

I purchased Microsoft's M80/L80 assembler package 2-3 months ago and
the problem you mentioned about COMMON blocks is still there.
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	Howard Johnson		Cyb Systems, Austin, TX
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