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- Subject: Re: Manx C and Boopsi Question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.130447.569@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz (Michael Cree)
- Date: 31 Aug 92 13:04:46 +1200
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- Michael Cree (cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz) wrote:
- : Ken Cooper (cooper@milton.u.washington.edu) wrote:
- :
- : Includes and autodocs. It might be possible to pull out the correct
- : object files from the lastest amiga.lib (available from CBM) and then
- : add them to c.lib. In fact, I might just give that a go and report
- : whether I was very successful. Will be a few a days before I get to
- : try though, havn't got many free evenings this week :-/
- :
-
- Well, due to snow blizzards closing down most of the city I did get a
- chance to do this. It worked. I used a text editor that preserved
- binary codes and identified the hunk_unit (0x3e7) and hunk_end (0x3f2)
- codes surrounding the string 'DoSuperMethod'. Then saved that block to
- a file called 'dsm.o' and used it in the linking process.
-
- The next step is to automate this process and produce all the object
- files comprising amiga.lib. I gave it a go but found that many of the
- object code hunks did not contain a name in the hunk_unit. Possibly
- could try using the first label in the symbol table listing but havn't
- got that far yet. If I get it working properly I will post the source
- code to alt.amiga.sources so that those with Aztec C compilers can
- reconstruct an Aztec compatible library easily.
-
- : Michael Cree Gold there is
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- Michael Cree Gold there is
- cree@elec.canterbury.ac.nz and rubies in abundance;
- But lips that speak knowledge
- are a rare jewel. (Prov 20:15)
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