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From: aklee@spam.this.interport.net (Albert K. Lee)
Subject: Re: Pragma and Object Files
Date: 1998/04/16
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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:56:04 -0400, Stephen Leake <Stephen.Leake@gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote:
>Albert K. Lee wrote:
>> 
>> An .obj file is an .o file, there is no difference ... DOS uses an
>> .obj file extension while many other OS's use .o instead.
>
>Sorry, but no. There are many different object file formats. Borland,
>Microsoft, and GNAT are all different from each other. I don't know of
>any way to directly convert one format to another, but there may be
>something like that in the gnu bintools (but gnu bintools probably don't
>know about Borland object format!).
>
>You'll have to compile the assembler code with the gnu assembler. I
>don't know if the assembler syntax is the same; the opcode mnemonics
>probably are, but the macro language is probably different.
>
>Good Luck!

Sorry.  Where I come from (that is, the distant past), Intel specified
a common .obj format.  MASM code was easily linked with Turbo Pascal
and so on.  Is this not the case anymore?