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Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker?

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"D Finnigan" <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote in message 
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> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>> D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> wrote:
>>> Michael J. Mahon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> An alternative to linking when source files grow is to split your 
>>>> source
>>>> into multiple (hopefully logically related) files and pare your actual
>>>> assembly file down to a "use" for macro definitions and a series of
>>>> "put"s
>>>> for the rest of the code segments.
>>>
>>> Does PUT require the target file to be saved with the W command? Just
>>> from
>>> simple testing, I couldn't get PUT to accept a Merlin .S source file.
>>>
>>>
>>>> This way, the "put" segments only occupy space one at a time.
>>>>
>>>> The ProDOS version is a win, too, and worth the changeover.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Point taken. I just need to dig out my ProDOS User's disk with its
>>> Convert
>>> utility.
>>
>>
>> Put without the .s suffix.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Also, but suggesting that I use PUT, are you also implying that I should
> stay away from using the REL linker?


I can't speak for Michael, but I doubt it. I've used both USE and PUT with 
Merlin for the Commodore 64 for source that was too large to fit in memory 
at once. At the time there was no REL available, ie., USE and PUT both 
pre-date versions of Merlin that also had REL. The main drawback was greatly 
reduced assembly speed versus in-memory assembly,  a problem emphasized on 
the C64 by its slow drive transfer rates. An unexpected advantage was that 
use of PUT made it reasonable to divide source modules by purpose, rather 
than have everything in one big file.

Merlin for the C128 did have REL, and I did play around with it. The main 
advantage of REL over PUT is assembly speed. Once a REL file is created it 
doesn't need to be assembled again to be incorporated into a project, unlike 
a PUT file, which is re-assembled from scratch every time it is used.

Just my $0.02.

- Anton Treuenfels 

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Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-19 19:48 +0000
  Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-19 16:42 -0600
    Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-19 22:51 +0000
      Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-19 17:31 -0600
        Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-20 20:27 +0000
          Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? "Anton Treuenfels" <teamtempest@yahoo.com> - 2015-02-20 17:16 -0600
            Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-21 12:44 -0600
          Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-21 12:44 -0600
            Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-21 20:00 +0000
              Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-22 01:36 -0600
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-23 17:30 +0000
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-23 12:57 -0600
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-23 19:12 +0000
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? wssimms@gmail.com - 2015-02-23 15:44 -0800
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-27 20:07 +0000
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> - 2015-02-24 03:16 -0600
                Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-27 20:11 +0000
  Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? Hugh Hood <hughhood@earthlink.net> - 2015-02-20 09:59 -0600
    Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2015-02-20 20:26 +0000
  Re: Comments on using Merlin Pro relocatable linker? jbrooks@blueshiftinc.com - 2015-09-25 21:18 -0700

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