From:	"Ian T. Zimmerman" <itz AT crl DOT com>
Subject:	Turbo stuff incompatibility?
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJ Delorie)
Date:	Sat, 30 Jul 1994 13:09:22 -0700 (PDT)

Hi everybody.

Long, long ago (at least 2 months now) I decided I wanted to tweak GO32 
to do some decent command line processing for me (not just the dumb sort 
done by the Borland startup code). So I went (electronically) and bought 
Turbo C++ 3.0 and then Turbo Assembler 4.0 both for bargain prices. 

First I built GO32 using the linker that comes with Turbo C++, which is 
version 5. It built fine but then Turbo Debugger (comes with the 
assembler, version 4) refused to load the program, complaining about 
wrong linker version.

Somewhat surprised (after all, a _newer_ debugger should understand 
_older_ symbol info?!) but still fearless I switched to the linker 
included with TASM, which is version 6. The first glitch appeared when I 
tried to use TCC to run the linker: a message 'Unhandled exception 000D' 
followed by the D"OS" patented automatic reboot. Well, said I, no problem 
- just some unfounded expectations about DPMI probably. Run TLINK by 
hand, and got message like 'Bad object record from EVENT.C at or near 0x780'.

Yuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! F...!!!!!!!! Just _what_ does Borland 
International, Inc. expect me to do? Please calm me before I go to Scotts 
Valley with a bomb in my briefcase! :-((

PS.: Without debug info, the build succeeds with TLINK 6 and the 
resulting GO32 seems to work. So the problem again seems to be debug 
information format. 

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