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From: dorettas@tekecs.UUCP (Doretta Schrock)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Overlay linker wanted for PCDOS
Message-ID: <5876@tekecs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Dec-85 19:44:40 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 16 19:44:40 1985
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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I have a large FORTRAN program that I am porting to the IBM-PC.
I am using Lahey's F77L FORTRAN compiler and the Lattice C
compiler.  I currently have Phoenix Computer Products' Plink86
Plus.  I am very happy with the development environment provided
by both the compilers and the linker except for one thing.  The
linker does not allow you to link a routine into more than one
overlay.  That wouldn't be any problem if I were starting from
scratch but I am constrained by the current structure of the 
existing program.  All the library routines called by overlays
get put in the root and then the program is too big to execute.
All of the solutions that seem reasonable within the constraints
of Plink86, like overlaying more of the root or changing the
structure of the program , are in some way unsatisfactory.  Are
there other overlay linkers out there besides Plink86 that might
work for me?

Send mail and I will post a summary of responses.

Doretta Schrock
Tektronix, Inc.
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