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- From: bromage@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Bromage)
- Newsgroups: comp.compilers,comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: 8086 object code
- Keywords: linker, question, 386
- Message-ID: <92-08-048@comp.compilers>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 01:28:14 GMT
- Sender: compilers-sender@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Reply-To: bromage@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Andrew Bromage)
- Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
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- I am trying to write a code generator for an 8086-family chip.
-
- Intel has an object module format especially designed for this chip, which
- would be the logical choice for relocatable code. I remember seeing a
- description of this in the MS-DOS Programmers Reference 3.2, which is
- going back a few years now, but seems to have been left out of V5.0, which
- is the current release.
-
- I believe that the format is also described in the MS-DOS Encyclopaedia,
- but my opinion is that this is not worth buying for one chapter (the price
- in Oz is very expensive).
-
- Does anybody know where I can get a copy of the specification?
-
- Thanks in advance etc.
-
- bromage@mullauna.cs.mu.oz.au
- [I have an old Intel document that describes the format, but Microsoft has
- added a lot to Intel's original spec to support fancy debuggers and library
- systems. -John]
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