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Article #3389Re: 68000 prehistory, was IBM PC prehistory
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:16
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1990 16:16
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> loader has been told that the distance (roundup) from data to bss is
> 64K, and you've been marked shared text, and you'd like to load
> on a machine with a 128K segment boundary, all the relocation in the
> world is not going to help you.
Sure it is. Nobody says that the different segments of the program have
to be relocated at a fixed distance. You can have as many chunks of code
in the load module as you can stand, and load them anywhere, once you have
relocation working.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!rutgers!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: 68000 prehistory, was IBM PC prehistory Message-ID: <7S31O_3xds13@ficc.uu.net> Date: 16 Jan 90 16:16:18 GMT References: <1990Jan12.042336.6123@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> <9324@cbmvax.commodore.com> <2825@odin.SGI.COM> Reply-To: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9