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I like the bin format (Announce)

posted by ecm Homepage E-mail, Düsseldorf, Germany, 02.01.2009, 19:00

> > > Linker can be useful/necessary if no HLLs are involved at all.
> >
> > Closed source pre-brewed LIB then.
>
> No. Just have a look at the RxDOS project for example, which consists of
> some dozens of assembly modules.
None of which are required if you don't have to reduce compilation time and CPU usage. My current source (which doesn't yet compile for other reasons) is written for NASM's multi-section bin format. Multiple %include directives in about 5 files bind all source files together. Compilation is now even easier because you had to link the object files in the correct order. Now you have to execute one command, once, to get all work done without any kind of complicated "makefile" or other script. (Yes, opposed to a FASM project you have to append a few options to that single command.)

> How half-done work (OBJ) can be better then fully done (EXE ready to run/crash) ?
Then again, most Real Mode DOS programs don't even need the MZ format. .COM (created by any good assembler's bin format) is fine for any program file below ~65280 Byte :clap:

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