[Coco] DEFT Pascal

[Carey Eugene]

From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] DEFT Pascal


> Carey Eugene wrote:
>> Ken;
> 
> #$%^&*( html!


It's not the html that's so annoying...  It's that outlook express has bugs with html

But that shouldn't be a problem because neither mine nor Ken's message was html.  They were plain text.


> I thought I was the only one with too much time on my hands and a C 
> program that wouldn't link, the C library linkage order was wrong and I 

What I was talking about was a Pascal program that turned out to be too big.

I mentioned C only because I had disassembled the Deft Pascal library and done so with most of the OS9 C library.  Even going so far as to write C code for much of it that compiled into the same object code in the library.

> wound up rebuilding it with 2 routines up front, and the same ones clear 
> at the end.  The linker can only resolve forward references, so if it 
> runs into a piece of code it needs late in the link scan, and that code 
> was one of the first modules in the library, it won't back up and 
> re-search the library.

That sounds familiar.  But it's been way too many years.

What I probably did was simply add an option to the compile line to link in the library again.  Give it a second chance to find what it needed.