Subject: Re: kernel build error, (3/11 SUP)
To: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@cs.chalmers.se>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 03/12/1997 22:47:02 
> > They're both link-time constants, so it *should* work..
> Only if you can convey the information to the linker so it can
> perform the arithmetic.  I know the HP object format allows this,
> last I looked our old a.out format couldn't.
> 

In a.out, all you can convey to the linker is "add a constant".

-pk