<grin>
Yeah, I noted that at the bottom of my email. Here's the updated link to the
article in the KB (which was down when I typed my original email...):
http://oasis.palm.com/dev/kb/article.cfm?id=1418
Rgds,
Jun-Kiat Lam
Metrowerks Technical Support
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitch_Fawcett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 6:57 PM
Subject: RE: out of range
> I just tried to go to the Palm link
http://www.palm.com/devzone/tn_32kj.html
> and I get a message from Palm saying it is not available. Doh.
>
> Mitch
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jun-Kiat
> Lam
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 2:04 PM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Re: out of range
>
>
> Eric,
>
> Here's a little snippet that may help (it's from the Palm KB):
>
> 7.2 When building my application the linker reports "16-bit reference out
of
> range." How do I fix this? (Typically this occurs to users who have had a
> large application working for some time and have just added "a little more
> code" to the application.)
>
> Due to limitations in the Palm OS, applications cannot make jumps of more
> than 32K (usually called "near" or "small" model on 68K series
processors).
> The error message indicates that someplace in your code you are calling a
> function in another block of code that is more than 32K away in the
compiled
> application. Since the jump is further than the Palm OS allows, the linker
> cannot resolve the reference. Here are ways to work around the limitation:
>
> Change the link order of the application
> The linker error message will tell you what function in your code was
> calling for the function which was too far away. You can determine what
> source file the calling and called functions are in and move the source
> files closer together in the link order (place the files closer together
in
> the Segments view of the project, under the Segments tab of the project
> window). In many cases a little reorganization of the link order can solve
> the problem. However, as you continue to write code for the app and its
gets
> larger eventually it may not be possible to reorganize the source file
link
> order to eliminate the problem.
>
> Set the compiler to "Smart" code model
> Set the Code Model popup menu of the 68K processor preference panel (in
the
> Target settings window) to "Smart." This will allow the compiler to
resolve
> the out of range references itself. There is a size penalty associated
with
> this, for more info see the explanation of code models in "What does the
> Code Model popup do?" below.
>
> Reorganize/Rewrite your code itself
> Palm makes several suggestions on how to write your application to avoid
> these issues by using jump islands or jump tables. For information see the
> following document from Palm http://www.palm.com/devzone/tn_32kj.html.
>
>
> The URL at the bottom is outdated, but there is an updated version of this
> same FAQ in the Palm KB (down at time of typing) with the correct URL, I
> believe.
>
> Rgds,
> Jun-Kiat Lam
> Metrowerks Technical Support
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 12:15 PM
> Subject: out of range
>
>
> > Hello everyone.
> >
> > I have a question concerning a linking error.
> > It says something like "your reference in your 16-bit programming to
> > WriteCGRec is out of range".
> >
> > Can someone tell me what it means?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Eric Sun
> > Developer - RAD systems
> > Q. Data Inc.
> > 5/1/00 1:07 PM
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Eugene Chin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 1:09 PM
> > To: Palm Developer Forum
> > Subject: Re: Doubles are 8 bytes?
> >
> > > Can somebody tell me how to keep CW from always creating doubles
> > as
> > 8 bytes?
> >
> > This is a compiler setting. Just go into the settings for your
> > project and it will allow you to toggle the sizes of ints and
> > doubles.
> >
> >
> >
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