I found this page:
http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/osd/linkers.htm

May be of some use.  I learned some things from it anyway.

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> I found this page:
> http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/osd/linkers.htm
> 
> May be of some use.  I learned some things from it anyway.

Does anyone know anything about 'alink'?

Seems to work with PE-COFF (as well as OMF).  The source code license is kind of weird, though it's "free for all to use...provided it remains unmodified".  Open source that you're not allowed to tinker with?  I really don't get it.  And if you have the right to "use ... for any purpose" doesn't that include borrowing snippets to use in your own programs, as long as you don't modify the original source distribution?  Hmm...


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Just for kicks I tried to link some dmd-generated OMF objects using alink.  It complained it didn't understand "record type BC" which apparently is a CEXTDEF-COMDAT External Names Definition Record according to this:
  http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/Omfg.pdf

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>> I found this page:
>> http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/osd/linkers.htm
>>
>> May be of some use.  I learned some things from it anyway.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about 'alink'?
> 

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Just for kicks I tried to link some dmd-generated OMF objects using alink.  It complained it didn't understand "record type BC" which apparently is a CEXTDEF-COMDAT External Names Definition Record according to this:
>   http://www.azillionmonkeys.com/qed/Omfg.pdf

FWIW, if it's failing to understand BC records, then there's probably other support missing as well.  IIRC, it's one of several record types that lives in a tier of add-ons to the spec that all came about at the same time.

The filename is also kind of appropriate.  That is the exact phrase you'll utter time-and-again when working with this filetype. ;)

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