Date:	Mon, 1 Feb 1999 08:57:13 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender:	eliz AT is
To:	Isaac Waldron <waldroni AT lr DOT net>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Accessing Constants in Assembly Code
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Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Isaac Waldron wrote:

> >> C:\waldroni\projects\graphics>gxx -o testc.exe testc.cc -lgraphics
> >> c:/djgpp/lib/libgraphics.a(blit.o)(.text+0x4):../src/blit.s:
> >> undefined reference to `VideoRAM'
[snip]
>     movl %eax,_VideoRAM
>     leave
>     ret
> 
> So, the symbol _VideoRAM (which points to a 4-byte area of the data
> segment) should be able to be accesed from my assembler code as
> _VideoRAM, right?

Right.

But the error message from the linker came from blit.s, and it
references `VideoRAM', not `_VideoRAM'.  Can it be that blit.s didn't
prepend the underscore?

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