Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!gert From: gert@uva.UUCP (Gert Poletiek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Large executables Message-ID: <528@uva.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 88 12:43:04 GMT References: <19880907153917.7.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Sender: news@uva.UUCP Reply-To: gert@dianne.UUCP (Gert Poletiek) Organization: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lines: 33 In article <19880907153917.7.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (John R. Dunning) writes: >Last night I booted my ST WITHOUT Turbodos for the first time in many >months. (The reasons are interesting, but not relevant here) When I >tried to run an experimental GCC that I'm working on, it died with wierd >errors. A bit of investigation revealed that when trying to start the >executable for compiler pass 1, the image loads, then dies immediately >with error code -66; bad executable format. > >I rebooted with Turbodos enabled, and it worked! Yes this is a known bug: gcc is so big that the relocation table is larger than 32KByte. Old ROMS cannot handle this, JAMDOS and TURBODOS can. So can the new Beta 1.4 ROMS (in RAM). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gert Poletiek Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands UUCP: {decvax,cernvax,unido,seismo}!mcvax!uva!gert bitnet: uva!gert@mcvax.bitnet, U00025@hasara5.bitnet Opinions (if any) are my own. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gert Poletiek Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands UUCP: {decvax,cernvax,unido,seismo}!mcvax!uva!gert bitnet: uva!gert@mcvax.bitnet, U00025@hasara5.bitnet Opinions (if any) are my own. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------