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From: HELMER%SDNET.BITNET@vm1.nodak.edu (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Packed versus unpacked assembly: How do you tell?
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Date: 10 Mar 89 16:35:37 GMT
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In a recent article, <allbery@NCOAST.ORG> writes:
>As quoted from <2046@marconi.sw.mcc.com> by knutson@marconi.sw.mcc.com (Jim
> Knutson):
>+---------------
>| 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
Forgive me if I'm missing something obvious, but why aren't as and
ld separate in this first place?

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