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Article #756Re: OS2 Device Driver in C -- Linking Problem
From: David Feustel
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 14:53
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1992 14:53
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oneil@hns.com (Pat O'Neil) writes: >Anyone out there have any experience writing OS/2 drivers in C? >I am writing a 16-bit OS/2 device driver in C/2. I'm having trouble >getting the linker to put the data segment (which contains the >device header) first. The C/2 manual says that the linker >locates segments in the order it encounters them. This seems >true until I start bringing in the C run-time libraries >(which I need for sprintf, strtok, memcpy, etc.). If I link >without the library (and thereby get a zillion unresolveds) >the map at least says that the data segment is first. Pat, The solution to yor problem is a small assembly language stub. See Mastrianni's book "Writing OS/2 2.0 Drivers in C" (Van Nostrand Reinhold, ISBN 0-442-01141-5). VNR has an 800 order number. -- Dave Feustel N9MYI <feustel@netcom.com> ( New .sig under construction. Watch this space! )
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!feustel From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.programmer Subject: Re: OS2 Device Driver in C -- Linking Problem Message-ID: <#rnn01r.feustel@netcom.com> Date: 5 Sep 92 14:53:44 GMT References: <1992Sep3.222735.22713@hns.com> Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting Lines: 21