From: no AT email DOT ads (Christopher Giese)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp,gnu.gcc.help
Subject: DJGPP -> coff-go32 -> .COM file
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 02:42:31 GMT
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I have been trying to write my own OS using DJGPP and NASM. I've
had good luck assembling the startup code to "aout" format and using
the following linker script to build a .COM file:

----------- BEGIN LINKER SCRIPT ---------------
/* Adapted from /djgpp/lib/djgpp.djl */
OUTPUT_FORMAT("binary")			/* "binary" for .COM file */
ENTRY(_start)
SECTIONS
{   .text 0x100 + SIZEOF_HEADERS : /* 0x100 for .COM file */
    {	*(.text)
	etext = .; _etext = .; }
    .data . :
    {	*(.data)
	edata = .; _edata = .; }
    .bss SIZEOF(.data) + ADDR(.data) :
    {	*(.bss)
	*(COMMON)
	end = .; _end = .; }}
----------- END LINKER SCRIPT ---------------

To help with debugging, I would like to link the kernel as
"coff-go32", use 'nm' to dump all the symbols, _then_ convert it to a
.COM file. I changed OUTPUT_FORMAT in the linker script to "coff-go32"
and tried:
  ld --noinhibit-exec -o krnl.cof -Tlink.scr $(OBJECTS)
  nm --line-numbers krnl.cof | sort >krnl.lst
  objcopy --input-format coff-go32 --output-format binary krnl.cof
	krnl.com
but all the data references have the wrong addresses.

Help!

(The code I've got so far can be found at
http://www.netwurx.net/~geezer/os)

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