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clean dos extender executable format (Developers)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 08.01.2023, 19:31

> > The lack of segmentation (not supporting the
> > "seg" keyword in assembler code) is something
> > I am happy to work around. I changed my
> > assembler code that was using that, and will
> > make sure the C compiler doesn't generate that.
>
> aout, by design, have 1 data seg and 1 code seg.
> Here is no any type of relocation for segments, so aout is applicable for
> tiny or small memory models only.
> imho, this is not enough for 16-bit DOS.
I was also wondering if this would be the case,
but it does not appear to be the case.

Robert has managed to get a large memory model
program of mine to work.

Admittedly the executable is small, so maybe
there is some fundamental problem I haven't
discovered yet.

https://sourceforge.net/p/pdos/gitcode/ci/master/tree/pdpclib/makefile.wca

https://github.com/robertapengelly?tab=repositories

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