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From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Packed versus unpacked assembly: How do you tell?
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Date: 10 Mar 89 02:47:33 GMT
References: <2046@marconi.sw.mcc.com>
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As quoted from <2046@marconi.sw.mcc.com> by knutson@marconi.sw.mcc.com (Jim Knutson):
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| I have become a little uncomfortable with the packed and unpacked
| assembly files looking the same (externally).  My latest bout with
| this ended up with my building a libc.a with an unpacked setjmp.s.
+---------------

Seeing as how it's doubtful that we'll ever have a real object file format
for PC Minix, why not just give packed assembler files a ".o" extension?

++Brandon
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