From: Luke Anthony Hutchinson <lhutchin AT ug DOT cs DOT su DOT oz DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: MASM v6.11 COFF files & DJGPP
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 13:10:45 +1000
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
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Has anyone had any success linking COFF files created by MASM v6.11 with
DJGPP v2.?  I have found some rather nasty bugs when attempting it, eg:
when you try to access a variable in your asm code, the address after
linking is ALWAYS the start of the segment, not the address of the
variable you want.  This problem seems to be with DJGPP not MASM, since
the disassembled COFF file addresses the variables correctly.  After a
lot of headaches in finding and working around this problem, I still
have trouble with the final executable, it is _extremely_ unstable, eg:
FSDB has a GPF when trying to load a.out, unless I comment out the line
XOR EAX,EAX in my code.

Something is definately not right here.  If anyone has had success
linking MASM COFF files with DJGPP I would really like to know how you
got around all these problems, or if didn't you encounter any of them?

BTW, please CC me directly with your response.

Thanks in advance

Luke