From:	Fokkema DOT DBRA AT delorie DOT com, 1043730 <dfokkema AT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	object formats
Date:	Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:55:08 GMT
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Hi there!

I have a problem with object file formats. I managed to define a global
variable with the size of the output file in a linker script. The problem
is that I want a nasm file to use it. It isn't a problem to get a djgpp
c program to use it, nor to get a nasm coff-style object file to use it,
but it is to get a nasm a.out-style object file to use it. I can't use
the coff-style format because that doesn't support 16bit code and I want to
write a loader (I already have, actually). So I want to use an a.out file.
Now ld links it allright, but doesn't pay attention to symbols that are
used within that file. When I use objdump -i, I get errors that the 
a.out-i386 format has an invalid header. Is this related to my problem? If so,
or not so, can anyone please help me to get a nasm file use a global symbol
defined in a ld linker script?

Thanx,

David Fokkema

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