RDS linker

Marco wrote: >I don't understand exactly what you are looking for, but i >think you can be interested in what i've done. >I build a kind of linker to substitute a .4go module in a .4gi >program. To reduce the transfer time when connected to a >customer's computer via modem for an update of his program: >instead of transferring the big .4gi program i send him only >the new version of .4go module and then i rebuild the .4gi in >his machine relinking the program (substituting it inside .4gi >module). I wrote it in C. I never tried to use it to cut a .4go >module away from a .4gi prog. >Sorry for my english (if this is englih). >If you are interested mail me at marcoc@unive.it. >If i misunderstand everythig, sorry :-). >Goobye. If I read this correctly, you are doing 1 of 2 things: 1) Recreating the 4gi by cating all the 4go's together again, after transfering the new file. 2) Extracting the old copy of the 4go from the 4gi and inserting the new 4go code in its place. (How do you handle changes to globals?). I am interested in the later, since I want to cut the 4gos out of the 4gi to remove redundant functions and duplicated globals. Ideally I want to read/construct the symbol table contained in the 4gi and use that to determine what I need to remove. Mark Denham BBC London, UK Mark.Denham@bbc.co.uk