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From: bruceb@amiga.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: Question about Alink
Message-ID: <1176@amiga.amiga.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 19-May-86 14:31:34 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 19 14:31:34 1986
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Reply-To: bruceb@hunter.UUCP (Bruce Barrett)
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In article <247@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul
 Higginbottom) writes:
>In article <928@h-sc2.UUCP> wen_2@h-sc2.UUCP writes:
>
>The programs written by Amiga were not linked using ALINK, nor were they
>compiled under Lattice.  Some are BCPL programs, and others are compiled
>on Sun computers under another compiler.

Not exactly correct Paul.  Alink is the *only* linker we use.  We use it
for BCPL, C and assembly programs.  What we do not generally use is the
Lattice C libraries.  For (most of) the CLI commands "we" use the BCPL
libraries.  If you, the developer can get away with undocumented and 
limited functions (as we can) you too can use the amiga.lib library for
things like printf().  To do this:
	Link using "alink astartup.obj+foo.o LIB amiga.lib+lc.lib"
(you still need lc.lib for things the Lattice compiler relies on.)
	Compile printf as: printf("%ld %ls %lx %;f\n", int, char, ...);
Note the "l" is necessary.
Hope this helps!!
--Bruce Barrett