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From: nj@ndmath.UUCP (nj @ a loss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Help with BLINK 7.2 linking
Message-ID: <586@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 31 Dec 87 19:21:07 GMT
References: <2232@crash.cts.com>
Organization: the Univ. of Notre Dame Math Dept.
Lines: 21
Summary: -b0, -r0 are not defaults

In article <2232@crash.cts.com>, caug-tom@pro-charlotte.cts.com (Tom McKeel) writes:
> I have recently been working on a C program to get the directory on any disk
> drive.  Well, I used an example which was originally compiled with Manx 3.2a. 
> When I try to compile this program after making some minor changes I got a
> strange linking error which I do not understand.  The program compiled without
> and warnings or errors.  During the 2ND pass of the linker(BLINK 7.2) I got
> this error:
>  
> Error 504: UNKNOWN symbol - Distance for Data Reloc16 > 32768
>   First Reference in unit mydir.o at offset 00000010 in file 'ram:mydir.o'
>   To Unit mydir.o at offset 00000010 in file 'ram:mydir.o'
> 

This sounds like the same problem I had for awhile until I called Lattice.
Contrary to what the manual says at first, it automatically turns on base-
and pc-relative addressing.  Try turning either or both off with -b0 and -r0,
and it should link properly.  This was just a documentation error that got
overlooked.
 
nj