Subject: Re: Mr Taylor surely understands ld: a correction to my previous post
From: [email-masked] (Christoph Kukulies)

28 Mar 1997 15:34:03 -0800
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[email-masked] writes:
> Hi Jacob, you wrote:
> 
> : Mr Taylor writes:
> : 
> : > ...the linker is able to generate an object file
> : > format which is different from the input file formats.  For example,
> : > this permits the linker to directly generate S-record output without
> : > requiring a convertor.
> 
> What is an S-record, please?

e.g. Motorola S-Records. An ASCII readable format for downloading
into embedded systems or EPROM burning. Intel had these :-records,
I believe. First appeared in 1975. Someone taking part
in a linker discussion oughta know what it is :->

> 
> : But WHY do we have to put the convertor and the linker in the SAME PROGRAM!!!
> : In my view of things, it would be much better to have an easy to understand
> : convertor to be used by systems programmers when they need S records, than
> : to overload the linker with YET ANOTHER LEVEL OF COMPLEXITY!!!
> 
> In the same program, they can't get out-of-sync, when it's updated.
> And nowadays, only the needed stuff is paged in.
> 
> 
> Bye, Heribert ([email-masked])
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