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From: wetter@tybalt.caltech.edu (Pierce T. Wetter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: 32K global data limit in MPW
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Date: 27 May 88 19:28:11 GMT
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>The current compilers generate 16-bit A5-relative references to global
>data.  The code generation imposes the 32K limit; the linker doesn't
>have much to do with it.
>
   Actually according to the object code description, the linker does have 
a lot to do with it, in fact, its the one the generates the references.
Pierce

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