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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:16:42 -0500
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: Accessing Constants in Assembly Code
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At 01:14 PM 2/3/99 +0200, you wrote:
>
>On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Isaac Waldron wrote:
>
>> The only line that accesses VideoRAM in blit.s appears as such:
>> 
>> mov eax,[_VideoRAM] (NASM syntax)
>
>Then why did the linker complain about VideoRAM, without the
>underscore?

Because VideoRam is the demangled version of the name _VideoRam and it
assumes any name in assembly language is mangled perhaps?

The linker always seems to try to demangle names to report problems.
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