Accessing section attributes from assembly (or C)

[Christopher Bahns]

Sorry bout that. MRI = Microtec Research (International?). They make an m68k
compiler for Windows. Perhaps they support other processors, but I don't know much
else. My purpose is to convert all project code from MRI to GNU because MRI costs
like $2500 for each developer (similar to other commercial compilers I think),
whereas GNU is said to be very good and costs nothing. Plus it has very good and
responsive support on this mailing list, for free as well.

Michael Sokolov wrote:

> Christopher Bahns <chris@bahns.com> wrote:
>
> > "            DC.L  (tables1_size + tables2_size)\n"
>
> Sorry, the UNIX model of an object module, which the GNU toolchain follows just
> like any other UNIX toolchain, does not allow referencing things like the sum
> of two external symbols.
>
> > It seems that MRI can do this, but GNU
> > (as far as I know) cannot.
>
> It isn't GNU that invented this limitation, it's the UNIX way of doing things,
> of which GNU is just one implementation.
>
> As you are making comparisons with something called "MRI", you may want to
> explain what it is you are making comparisons with. To me MRI doesn't mean
> anything other than Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It seems like you are talking
> about some other compiler/assembler/linker toolchain. What sort of toolchain is
> it? Is it used by some proprietary version of UNIX, or is it a specialized
> embedded cross-toolchain, or what?
>
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