[Coco] DEFT Pascal

[Gene Heskett]

Carey Eugene wrote:
> 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.
> 
Maybe, but there were any eol's except at the paragraph breaks, so I 
assumed tbird had stripped the html and hit me in the face with what was 
left.  It reads ok, but when I reply, the EOL's disappear and I have one 
long line, about 4 feet long on a 15" lcd screen...
> 
>> 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.

Humm, pascals equ to c.prep had essentially the same problem as 
MicroWares version, where it all goes in the toilet if the sources are 
more than 35k or so?

> 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.
> 
I can't recall if I used that option or not in my troubleshooting.  Too many
years have passed by since.  Humm, I was renting a trailer near Hepzibah 
WV then, and Dee & I tied the knot 17 years ago this Dec 2nd, so that 
was 19 years ago.  Some of that is disappearing into the fog of time. :(

-- 
Cheers, Gene