Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!bloom-beacon!gatech!rutgers!mtune!codas!usfvax2!chips 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 } "This line intentionally left blank" This comment intentionally left out in the rain. -- Chip Salzenberg UUCP: "uunet!ateng!chip" or "chips@usfvax2.UUCP" A.T. Engineering, Tampa Fidonet: 137/42 CIS: 73717,366 "Use the Source, Luke!" My opinions do not necessarily agree with anything.