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From: Philippe Auphelle on 1 Sep 2006 10:33 Hi, Does any of you All knows what happened to the old Link&Locate? It seems to have totally vanished, and I don't see much suitable replacement for it... TIA, Phil
From: Jim Stewart on 1 Sep 2006 13:58 Philippe Auphelle wrote: > Hi, > > Does any of you All knows what happened to the old Link&Locate? > It seems to have totally vanished, and I don't see much suitable > replacement for it... These guys can probably help you: http://www.devtools.com/pcpp/linker.htm
From: Jonathan Kirwan on 1 Sep 2006 14:32 On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:58:25 -0700, Jim Stewart <jstewart(a)jkmicro.com> wrote: >Philippe Auphelle wrote: > >> Does any of you All knows what happened to the old Link&Locate? >> It seems to have totally vanished, and I don't see much suitable >> replacement for it... > >These guys can probably help you: > >http://www.devtools.com/pcpp/linker.htm There were at least three such tools once available, years back. I remember one coming from SSI (Systems & Software, Inc.), which is the one you are mentioning. Their product worked with Microsoft C (v 5.0 and 5.1, when I was using it) and MASM (also 5.0 and 5.1) and they also had another product called "SoftProbe." Paradigm Systems was some of their competition (mentioned in the above link) at the time, if memory serves. Rick Naro of Paradigm was very kind to me a few years back and after some email exchanges and a phone call or two, took all the trouble it took them to provide me with a complete, older package of their C compiler and linking tools. It wasn't easy for them and we went through a couple of iterations of effort on their end. He didn't charge. You might explain carefully your circumstances and need and ask them to suggest an option. I believe you will find them to be very fair and earnest, based on my own experiences. I don't believe their product has the ability to copy segments, just classes. But you probably don't need that feature, anyway. Jon
From: Hans on 1 Sep 2006 16:01 Perhaps this one http://www.leonardo.caltech.edu/~ee5x/tools/ ? Hans www.ht-lab.com "Philippe Auphelle" <pauphelle.no.spam.please(a)wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:44f844cd$0$16874$626a54ce(a)news.free.fr... > Hi, > > Does any of you All knows what happened to the old Link&Locate? > It seems to have totally vanished, and I don't see much suitable > replacement for it... > > TIA, > > Phil
From: Philippe Auphelle on 5 Sep 2006 05:10
Thanks a lot to you all. I have a moderately complex link / locate problem that (if I remember) some of the latest (and last) generation of "technical" OMF overlay linkers were able to solve. Heck, the documentation for a linker like PLINK was a thick 3-ring binder, and it had nearly as much directives as the CPU has instructions! In one word, the problem is about having volatile (init time) segments and core segments, all in a Group, and having the toolchain insure that no code from the core ever attempts to reference anything from the init (while references the other way are allowed). When I started to google around a few days ago, I realized that all of those mighty linking tools had totally disappeared. They were already considered outmoded when the internet started to build up, so they hardly ever got referenced. Jonathan, I found that Link&Locate belonged to SSI, then Beacon Development Tools, that merged into Embedded System Products, Inc in Dec 98, and then was bought at some point by Quadros Systems, Inc, that is now in a different sector of activity. I just discovered today that Comsol, a UK company, *seems* to still carry the SSi tools. Jim and Jonathan, I have been in contact with Rick Caro of Paradigm - Paradigm was in my investigation list for the kind of tools I'm after. He's been nice, helpful and friendly, but the Paradigm tools don't have what I'm looking for. Hans, thanks for a great link. I thought those too had definitely gone to oblivion. The bottom line is that I went back to the TIS Relocatable OMF Specification 1.1 and I'm about to make my own tools. I shouldn't have to go to the point of writing my own linker / locator :) , but I'll take the same .obj files input as the linker to provide the checking I need and abort the make if any error appears. Doesn't seem too bad at this point. Thanks again to all, Phil Philippe Auphelle wrote: > Hi, > > Does any of you All knows what happened to the old Link&Locate? > It seems to have totally vanished, and I don't see much suitable > replacement for it... > > TIA, > > Phil |