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link386 warnings and device driver probs.

#195
From: hamish
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 1992 09:58
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I have a problem with generating a device driver using link386. Basically the
damn thing has started telling me that the program has no starting address ie

LINK386 : warning L4038: program has no starting address

I know its only a warning but it obviously means something else is wrong. But
what? Can anyone help? I started with the sample code in the toolkit for
pdd.sys and chopped some stuff out, added a few DosWrites and now it does this.
So long as I don't actually try to do anything, it actually runs, but I can't
do anything else or it dies... (GPI (0x0d) when callig DosDevIOCtl etc..). Its
starting to really get to me.

Oh yeah. I'm using MASM 5.1, should I be calling the DOS routines with OS/2 1.2
parameters, or OS/2 2.0 parameters? I'm using the @DosDevIOCtl macro from the
includes....

Or Whats a better assembler to use for creating device drivers? I need to write
an interface module for an ODI protocol stack. 

TIA..



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|  University of Waikato,                                                    |
|  Hamilton, New Zealand.                                                    |
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From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
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Subject: link386 warnings and device driver probs.
Message-ID: <1992Aug1.215813.9784@waikato.ac.nz>
Date: 1 Aug 92 21:58:13 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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