Checksum: 65365 Lines: 28 Path: utzoo!sq!hobie From: hobie@sq.uucp (Hobie Orris) Date: Sun, 13-Dec-87 23:15:30 EST Message-ID: <1987Dec13.231530.16616@sq.uucp> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Manx Linker Problems Reply-To: hobie@sq.com (Hobie Orris) Distribution: na Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto I have been trying to port Moria to the Amiga, but the Manx linker has been giving me a hard time. There are two very large arrays of structures, about 26k and 44k compiled, which compile just fine, but which cause this vexing error on link: FileAttempted to write outside of file bounds @52800! B=4455c, v=e2a4,s=524f0 No mention of this sort of thing in the manual. This one I can probably get around, but the second error looks a little more devious. Moria is really big, around 350K, and it gurued in OpenWindow. I made a little test program to test that my window opening code was correct, and of course it was. I saw that Open- Window() first pulls the NewWindow pointer off the stack, then loads IntuitionBase into a6, then jumps relative to it. In the monster Moria executable (compiled, as was my test program, with +C +D +L) instead of loading IntuitionBase into a6, it loads some random value (db named it as _inventory_init+19c). Is there something I don't know about? Anyway, while single-stepping, I patched the correct value in a6 and the window opened. However, at closing time, the machine gurued again, due to the same cause I suspect. Any suggestions towards the solving of these two problems will be appreciated by both me and all future Amiga Moria players! Hobie Orris | guest of SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Ont. |"There'll be no more giant leeches {ihnp4 | decvax | ? }!utzoo!sq!hobie | When you find the good Lord Jesus"