Re: Seg fault with hla 1.99 on Fedora 8 linux

Ok - thanks for the help guys! - I'll do my best. As you say, whilst
I'm happy to give NASM a go ( once I know a bit of assembler ) it
would be nice to get HLA working on my linux box, as it would make
following the book a lot easier ( BTW - I'm finding the book really
good and well layed out - only having done high level languages
before, this is all very enlightening... :-> )

Ok - now for the info that you wanted:

First - yes my install of FC8 is 32 bit.
Second - install paths. I have the following setup

HLA 1.99 installed in /home/david/local/hla1.99
HLA 1.97 installed in /home/david/local/hla1.97
A symlink from /home/david/local/hla -> hla1.9X (depending on which
version I'm testing)

and the following env vars set:
[david@beechwood:~/local ] $ env | grep hla
hlalib=/home/david/local/hla/hlalib/hlalib.a
hlainc=/home/david/local/hla/include
PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/david/local/
hla:/home/david/bin

Third - core dumps - I have done a little bit of C programming so have
some experience of gdb and examining core dumps, however , I'm not
really sure how this translates to assembler...

.... Having just written the out the above, whilst trying to get some
more info I have now found a way to make it work , by switching the
assemblers

With internal FASM:

[david@beechwood:~/local/AoA/Volume1/Ch02 ] $ hla -xo
HelloWorldWithVar.hla
[david@beechwood:~/local/AoA/Volume1/Ch02 ] $ ./HelloWorldWithVar
Hello, World of Assembly Language
InitDemo's value is Segmentation fault (core dumped)


With Gas:

[david@beechwood:~/local/AoA/Volume1/Ch02 ] $ hla -xg
HelloWorldWithVar.hla
[david@beechwood:~/local/AoA/Volume1/Ch02 ] $ ./HelloWorldWithVar
Hello, World of Assembly Language
InitDemo's value is 5


Any thoughts on why this might be ( although now I can get on with
trying the examples :-> ... )?


Many thanks for all your help and advice!
Regards
David

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