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From: robinson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson)
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Subject: 64k tables & Manx?
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Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 16:05:34 EST
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I have a program I am writing as a C/assembly hybrid for which I have need
of a 64k (2^16, 65536) byte table.

I have a program which generates the table, and can modify said program
to generate the output in any format desired.

I have the Manx 3.4 commercial package.

I would like to get the whole table loaded cleanly into the final executable
with a symbol pointing at the center so I can access all 65536 bytes using
register indirect with index addressing (small style).

I tried generating a C initialized static array, but Manx puked on it
(arrays must be < 32k bytes).

I tried generating an assembly array out of ds.b's but the assembler put in
unit separators (0x1f) between every line, broke the table into three hunks,
and the linker wouldn't recognize the public symbol in the center.

My next idea was to change the table generator program to output the table
directly into a .o format file, with the external symbol, hunk information,
and everything.  Then I realized I only had documentation for the AmigaDOS
object file format, and that the Manx format was completely different.

If anyone can help me in any way, I would greatly appreciate it if you
could send me mail.

I will summarize responses to the net.

Thanks

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