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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: What's a relocatable segment?
Message-ID: <16473@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 15 Jan 89 19:22:34 GMT
Organization: malkaryotic
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Help, somebody.  Occasionally I compile a program in in TurboC's Tiny
model, for subsequent conversion from a .exe to a .com file.  Then I use
'exe2bin' or a similar program to do the conversion.  (Yes, I know that
the new version of 'tlink' makes .com files directly.  Nonetheless...)

The thing is, sometimes this conversion fails with a message sort of
like "Program has relocatable segments, can't convert."  Nowhere in any
of the documentation I have, can I find a statement of what this means,
or what exe2bin/exe2com are looking for.  Or what they're actually
doing, for that matter.  I know what segments are, but I don't know what
is being done to them, or how it is that they might be relocatable in a
.exe file without being relocatable in a .com file -- this sounds like a
"relocatable" other than just loading at arbitrary points in the memory
space, which any executable file should be able to do.

Would someone who understands this please post a bit of tutorial?  I
know I'd appreciate it....