X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <466099d0$0$77328$cc7c7865@news.luth.se> From: Martin Str|mberg Subject: Re: Loading text & data section into different segments Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: <1179221506 DOT 644176 DOT 216690 AT e51g2000hsg DOT googlegroups DOT com> <466093e1$0$77049$cc7c7865 AT news DOT luth DOT se> <200706012222 DOT l51MM8hO030336 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> User-Agent: tin/1.4.7-20030322 ("Suggestions") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.9 (sun4u)) Date: 01 Jun 2007 22:12:32 GMT Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: brother.ludd.ltu.se X-Trace: 1180735952 news.luth.se 77328 130.240.16.78 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote: > Nothing the linker can do will change the fact that djgpp programs > always have all the segments with a common base address. You can't > have a djgpp program with non-overlapping CS and DS segments. Obviously he was making a non-DJGPP-program (like a home made kernel). Otherwise he wouldn't be playing around with the load addresses. If you're making a DJGPP program, you do not mess with a linker script of your own design. Right, MartinS