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From: chips@usfvax2.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: (Still another) Turbo C bug
Message-ID: <805@usfvax2.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jul-87 00:16:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: usfvax2.805
Posted: Mon Jul 27 00:16:27 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 28-Jul-87 01:30:39 EDT
References: <256@askja.UUCP>
Organization: AT Engineering, Tampa, FL
Lines: 24
Keywords: Turbo C bug TLINK
Summary: Yes, TLINK is broken; use MS-LINK

In article <256@askja.UUCP>, frisk@askja.UUCP (Fridrik Skulason) writes:
} I have found what I believe is a bug in Turbo-C (actually a bug in TLINK -
} I think), namely that the HUGE memory model simply does not work.
} 
} What I am trying to do is to convert a 40K line program from Microsoft C into
} Turbo C. Only around 3000 lines are program lines, the rest is arrays. 
} But, when linking I got the message
}  Linker error: Too much global data defined in file
} 
} The two large arrays are placed in serparate segments (F_DATA and F2_DATA)
} as they should be, so why do I get the error message from the linker ???

Borland has acknowledged this bug on CompuServe, but I have seen no patch.
MS-LINK is your only way out.  (Things are bad when Microsquishy is _it_.)

} Fridrik Skulason  Univ. of Iceland, Computing Center
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This comment intentionally left out in the rain.

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