Is 4.0 ld broken?

[Mitchell Patterson]

I've been using Kyoto Common Lisp on a DECstation 3100.  With a lot of help
from Mr. Luke Tierney at U-Minn Statistics, it worked fine under our
previous version of Ultrix (3.1? 3.2? I don't remember, it was days ago).

We're using AKCL 1-492, configured for a DEC 3100.  Under our old version
of Ultrix, one could load foreign functions (as in ``(load "junk.o")'')
with no trouble.  Under 4.0, however, I get the error message ``Unexpected
end of file in <whatever-file-I'm-loading>.''

Did DEC change the format of its object files in such a way as to give a
bogus EOF?  Or is ld just confused?

If you have any ideas at all on this, please post to this group or email
me at the address below; I could really use the help!

Mitch Patterson
eXpert eXplorer Project
patterso at usceast.cs.scarolina.edu