in fact, here is the problem, and nature of the problem, again referencing a mail-archive.com dialog, thus: this person on 01/07/04 using cw9.2 has linker 3.04.33 and requesting the latest version or where to acquire... i have cw9.3 with linker 3.0.4 build40... my linker is obsolete, aside from being buggy... i need the latest linker, i need to upgrade from 3.0.4 build40 linker which is bug-ridden, mw made a mistake with the software package that i purchased, they mistakenly bundled the obsolete and buggy linker 3.0.4 build40... am i acquiring the lastest linker with the upgrades 9.2 and 9.3, i don't think so...
I know that I have a valid CW for Palm OS 9.3 installation. The linker is 3.0.4, build 40. I'm the person that prepared the 9.3 patch for Metrowerks. The version that we released in the 9.3 patch was build back in February, tested by the Metrowerks QA department, and put on the web based on an archive that I prepared using the MW build servers. The code has been running on lots of computers without the problems you're seeing.
A few things can cause the linker to crash:
1) a bug in the linker
2) a bug in one of the tools that produces the object code that the linker processes
Knowing the architecture of that linker, I'd expect the problem to be in either the debugging information generated for C/C++ code, or a problem with the variable relocation information.
You haven't done basic steps that would lead me to better understand the problem.
Does the linker crash when you build any of the sample projects that come with Codewarrior?
Does the linker crash then you create a new project using the wizards?
Are you able to use the "disassemble" command on all of your source files? This would help determine if the problem is with the linker or with the generated code.
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