Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncrcae!hubcap!gatech!ncar!mailrus!husc6!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!whv From: allbery@NCOAST.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Packed versus unpacked assembly: How do you tell? Message-ID: <75225WHV@PSUVM> Date: 10 Mar 89 02:47:33 GMT Sender: Minix operating system Reply-To: INFO-MINIX@UDEL.EDU Followup-To: comp.os.minix Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 17 COMMENTS: Warning -- original Sender: tag was info-minix-request@UDEL.EDU COMMENTS: To: info-minix@udel.edu 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 -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser