Subj : LINK386 Help
To   : Don Guy
From : Fred Kantor
Date : Wed Dec 05 2001 12:24 pm

In a message dated 12-05-01, Don Guy said to Fred Kantor:
FK> If I may ask... did you make a program .DEF file?
DG> I did, however it has nowhere near the content of yours.  NAME, 
DG> DESCRIPTION, and STUB directives only.
DG> What puzzles me is LINK386's complaint about an invalid object 
DG> file, where Borland's linker has none.

Just a thought, but... for two different assemblers -- ALP (IBM) 
and A386 (Eric Isaacson) -- I found that different starting 
material was needed to produce usable object code; at that time, 
A386 needed to have a particular setup "front-end" to set the order 
of components in the output object. 

I wrote that program a while ago:
FWKFF.ASM     17134 01/18/1996 01:40
Things may have changed since then.

Have you looked to see if some front-end material like that might 
be needed to produce acceptable .obj code?

Here is what I used to set the .obj order for A386 (I've moved the 
";<--<< ALP A386 different" to fit the message width):

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        TITLE   FWKFF Fast Find
        NAME    FWKFF

        .386

; in A386, put FLAT in every SEGMENT definition

; the order of these empty segments sets order in .OBJ

                                ;<--<< ALP A386 different

CODE32  SEGMENT DWORD FLAT PUBLIC 'CODE'           ;
CODE32  ENDS                                       ;
                                                   ;
DATA32  SEGMENT DWORD FLAT PUBLIC 'DATA'           ;
DATA32  ENDS                                       ;
                                                   ;
CONST32 SEGMENT DWORD FLAT PUBLIC 'CONST'          ;
CONST32 ENDS                                       ;
                                                   ;
BSS32   SEGMENT DWORD FLAT PUBLIC 'BSS'            ;
BSS32   ENDS                                       ;
                                                   ;
DGROUP  GROUP CONST32, BSS32, DATA32               ;
        ASSUME  CS:FLAT, DS:FLAT, SS:FLAT, ES:FLAT ;
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