Date   : Fri, 18 Jan 1985 03:37:21 GMT
From   : Andrew Klossner <andrew%orca.uucp@BRL-TGR.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Microsoft Linker L80 Question

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       "Is anyone else having difficulty with Microsoft's Linker L80
       when using the search mode, that is, with a /s at the end of
       the file to be searched?"

There's a bug in L80.  When searching a library, it encounters a
module, and begins passing over the symbols to see if any are needed.
If it passes over a COMMON block, then comes to an symbol which is
needed, it gets a fatal system error in trying to back up to the
beginning of the module and begin loading.

This prevents inclusion of output from the Aztec C compiler in
libraries.  A work-around is to edit the assembly output from the
compiler and move all the common blocks to the end of the file.

I submitted a bug report to Microsoft two years ago, and received
acknowledgement, but to my knowledge they have never fixed this.
CP/M-80 is dead, don't you know ...

  -- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew)       [UUCP]
                       (orca!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]