From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: Porting DOS to linux
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Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 15:10:51 GMT
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On Thu, 07 Sep 2000 17:08:07 +0200, Waldemar Schultz
<schultz AT ma DOT tum DOT de> wrote:

>Damian Yerrick schrieb:
>> >When I change line #22 in 'src/dos/gripfnc.s' reading
>> >
>> >#define GRIP_CALL             lcall *GLOBL(GRIP_Thunk) + 8
>> >to
>> >#define GRIP_CALL             lcall  GLOBL(GRIP_Thunk) + 8
>> >                                    ^
>> >(without the asterisk) as it reads in earlier versions, make runs fine.
>> >to whom it concerns.
>> 
>> Older versions (lcall foo) are written for the Binutils 2.8.x syntax;
>> newer versions (lcall *foo) are for Binutils 2.9.1.  Allegro 3.9.34
>> will automatically handle this in the build scripts.
>
>I am running bnu210. perhaps there is another problem in the toolchain.
>Thanks for reply. 

Perhaps 2.10 switched back to 2.8's syntax.  The Allegro people need
to know about this.

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