[TUHS] Debugging help sought

[Adam Thornton]

Thanks.  Since I am already pre-preprocessing the macros that generate the
FORTH builtin words (no token pasting in K&R C), I can trivially split them
out into individual files each with a single short function.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 10:49 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> It's likely too many. Ld used to have lots of fixed sized arrays... I had
> to hack on the 2.10.1BSD to change supported ar formats and noticed. Also
> had to tweak some of the constants to get something much bigger compiling.
> The BSD ld had overlay suppot merged into it, but was otherwise quite
> similar to V7, though I've not done a deep dive into ld from v7...
>
> Tl;dr: chances are good more, smaller files will work.
>
>
> Warner
>
> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 10:30 PM Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> So maybe I missed a symbol when I was trying to make everything unique in
>> 8 chars?  There are no external symbols; all that's in my forth.h are
>> macros and typedefs.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020 at 5:35 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 6, 2020, 9:48 AM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/5/20, Adam Thornton <athornton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > $ cc -o 4th forth.c
>>>> > ld:forth.o: Local symbol botch
>>>>
>>>> I hate error messages like that.  Would it have been that much extra
>>>> trouble for ld to tell you which symbol caused the problem?
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's a relocation entry it can't find a symbol for that's the issue...
>>>
>>> Warner
>>>
>>>> -Paul W.
>>>>
>>>
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