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From: Marco van de Voort
On 2011-02-24, Robert AH Prins wrote:
> On 2011-02-23 21:43, Jim Leonard wrote:
>>
>> What I meant was: From my assembler program, can I link in routines
>> from precompiled pascal units?
>>
>> I'm beginning to think not, but would like confirmation either way.
>
> No, as TPU's contain, in essence, unlinked .OBJ code + separate
> relocation tables. Next to that, Borland never disclosed the format of
> TPU files, and all but he simplest Pascal code uses code from system.tpu.
Hmm, yes, linking might be a problem.
I can vaguely remember there was a tpu2obj on simtel. Never tried that route
though. Considering its date (1988) it is probably for very old TPs.
Other then that, maybe link it to an overlay on a fixed address and try to
load that? Still not an easy solution.
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