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I'm not very good in English (language). You have meant:

The problem must be in Minerva, not in sQLux (we will see, I will try it in UQLX) but in Minerva.

What I (German) have understood when I have read your message:

This is because you are using a (completely) exotic operating system.

Well ...

C68 and its Libraries do not create reentrant, ROMable code, [...]

Of course C68 creates reentrant code - if one knows how to program such code in C.

C68 has options (as Lattice C) to produce reentrant code. But there is (IMO) not even a startup object file/lib to use it and no libraries ...

You would not normally use libc in romable programs anyway. Libc is not re-entrant and also relies on global state. This is true no matter the compiler.

That's not true. At least the "standard lib" (aka Libc [#include <stdio.h>]) from EJC should produce reentrant code. If you want to test it ...

You'd have to ask Fred Toussi, who wrote Text 87 on the Atari. He probably created his own libraries.

Nope, I have had intensive contact with Fred (I wrote my "Diplom-Arbeit" with text87, the output was much better than those of other students who used WordStar, Word, ... for DOS – e.g ...

 
I do not use a "completely different OS":

Wicksy wrote: Sat Jul 05, 2025 12:21 pm I initially tried using Quill as the text editor, but It froze up RPM, I assume cos it is saved as a Quill file. Oh well.

You can use Quill as an editor, but you must not save it, but export it or create a printer driver that does not translate anything and print to a file.

This is normal for SBASIC. It only loads new names into the name table which are actually being used in the child job, and then they inherit their properties from their ancestors in the main SBASIC.

Ah' didn't know that.
As for your extension not working, it's generally not recommended to load ...

Because of the UPN problem mentioned in the starting thread: It seems the problem is with sQLux. On QPC2 UPN seems to be okay, i.e. results in 12 (on sQLux I get "Der Stack ist voll !" [the stack is full])

Thank You! I have now examined my boot program on sQLux/UQLX and QPC2 (it's so large, and I have written it long ago, that I don't know all I have done). In sQLUx I have used HOT_CHP1("c","upn") to put it on the hotkey 'c'. I have now added this to the QPC2 boot program and now UPN is also in the ...

There are, however, no libraries available for C68 to link to PC-relative code. You'd need to adapt/recompile them all.


Exactly this is the problem. There are no Libs for C68. Albeit C68 now uses SROFF (versions at least until 3.x did NOT!) it's questionable, if it will work (can be linked ...