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Article #33998Re: Large executables
From: Gert Poletiek
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1988 12:43
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 1988 12:43
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In article <19880907153917.7.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
>Last night I booted my ST WITHOUT Turbodos for the first time in many
>months. (The reasons are interesting, but not relevant here) When I
>tried to run an experimental GCC that I'm working on, it died with wierd
>errors. A bit of investigation revealed that when trying to start the
>executable for compiler pass 1, the image loads, then dies immediately
>with error code -66; bad executable format.
>
>I rebooted with Turbodos enabled, and it worked!
Yes this is a known bug: gcc is so big that the relocation table is larger
than 32KByte. Old ROMS cannot handle this, JAMDOS and TURBODOS can.
So can the new Beta 1.4 ROMS (in RAM).
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Gert Poletiek Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Opinions (if any) are my own.
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Gert Poletiek Dept. of Math. and Computing Science, University of Amsterdam,
Kruislaan 409, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
UUCP: {decvax,cernvax,unido,seismo}!mcvax!uva!gert
bitnet: uva!gert@mcvax.bitnet, U00025@hasara5.bitnet
Opinions (if any) are my own.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hp4nl!uva!gert From: gert@uva.UUCP (Gert Poletiek) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Large executables Message-ID: <528@uva.UUCP> Date: 8 Sep 88 12:43:04 GMT References: <19880907153917.7.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Sender: news@uva.UUCP Reply-To: gert@dianne.UUCP (Gert Poletiek) Organization: Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Lines: 33