Borland's bcc55 linker...

[Charlie Gibbs]

In article <3b9cefea.749266 at news.nerim.net> g.patel at wanadoo.fr.invalid
(gerard patel) writes:

>On Mon, 10 Sep 2001 16:30:19 -0400, "J.K." <jk at whoknowswhere.net>
>wrote:
>
>>hangs when I try to build a simple HelloWorld app.
>>Am I doing something wrong or is it a known problem/bug?
>
>Well known of me. I have already posted an explanation
>several times now.
>
>>If so, is there maybe a workaround?
>
>No easy workaround.

Still, the fix that you posted a few months ago (in response to
the same request from me) works just fine.  (I'm still running
the 20010216 version, though - maybe it doesn't work for newer
releases?)

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On 05 Apr 01 12:59:17 -0800, "Charlie Gibbs" <cgibbs at sky.bus.com> wrote:

<snip>

>It's the linker (ILINK32.EXE) that hangs.  I've run many tests with
>both BCB4 and the version 5 free download.  Too bad - I'd love to
>get it running under Wine myself.

The following hack is fixing Bcb4.  I don't know about bcc5.

Gerard

--- virtual.c.orig      Tue Feb 27 03:09:18 2001
+++ virtual.c   Fri Apr  6 12:11:41 2001
@@ -1045,6 +1045,8 @@

     if (addr >= (void*)0xc0000000) return 0;

+    VirtualAlloc( 0x80000000, 0x1000, MEM_RESERVE | MEM_SYSTEM,
PAGE_EXECUTE_READWRITE );
+
     base = ROUND_ADDR( addr );

     /* Find the view containing the address */
@@ -1097,6 +1099,8 @@
     info->BaseAddress    = (LPVOID)base;
     info->AllocationBase = (LPVOID)alloc_base;
     info->RegionSize     = size - (base - alloc_base);
+    if ((info->BaseAddress + info->RegionSize) > 0xc0000000)
+        info->RegionSize = 0xc0000000 - (DWORD)info->BaseAddress;
     return sizeof(*info);
 }

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