Re: Basic compiler

["Liam Busey" <buseyl@yahoo.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:
> In article <9dmdnT8HA7U7_aPYnZ2dnUVZ_v-dnZ2d@comcast.com>,

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> > There are ways to handle it without reassembly, like writing
> > location-independent 6502 code (not bad for short non-self-modifying
> > routines), but they can cost speed, which is a problem.
>
> Actually, Apple once made an effort to use the "R" file type in Apple
> DOS, for relocatable 6502 object code.  That code was not executable
> though until it had ben processed by a linker.
>
> There was even a third-party Linker utility, which could be used with
> any Apple II assembler.  Linker required you to follow specific
> conventions in your assembly code, to mark and name entry points,
> calls to external routines, and to mark blocks of code, relocatable
> data, and non-relocatable data.  You could then build a library of
> routines, where each routine resided in its own binary file.  Linker
> linked it all together into one signle binary file, and could relocate
> library modules but only by even multiples of 256 bytes.

This sounds interesting. Do you recall the name of the linker?


Liam Busey