> Is there some way that I can get the project to link with that much static
> data or do I absolutely need to put it into resource files? I would like
to
> avoid doing that if possible since this is an ongoing project with changes
> to the existing codebase that will need to be integrated into this port.
> However I suspect that putting into resources is the only way to get it to
> work, would someone please deny or confirm my suspicions?
I'm confirming it -- there is no way to get a data segment larger than 64K
with standard Palm tools. All static and global data addressing is done
through a +-32K offset from the A5 register, so growing beyond 64K would
require totally different code generation. Also, multiple segments only
relates to code -- all data is always aggregated into a single segment.
Using far data is a solution on MacOS, but the Palm OS doesn't provide any
support for that mechanism. There is no Palm "huge" memory model like that
was on x86 DOS.
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