HELP: assembly & C linking woes....

I am having problems linking an assembly object with my C object files. Am getting:

Linker Warning: DOSSEG directive ignored in module asm.asm
Linker Error: Undefined symbol _ASMClsV in module main.c
Linker Error: Undefined symbol VADDR in module asm.asm

In my asm.asm file I've got:

DOSSEG
.MODEL huge
.386

.DATA
EXTRN vaddr : word;

.CODE
PUBLIC ASMClsV

ASMClsV PROC Near
;bla bla
ASMClsV EndP

In main.c I've got:

extern void ASMClsV();

Am trying to link using Borland C++ 4.5 since my source files are all 16-bit. I successfully linked the same asm.asm file with a 16-bit pascal object using Turbo Pascal 7.0. Why can't I link using Borland C++ 4.5 to a 16-bit C file?

Also, I used Microsoft Macro Assembler 5. Should I use Turbo Assembler?

C compilers usually mangle a function name by adding an _ to the front of each function name and variable. This has been traditionally done by C compilers since the days of K&R. You can do one of two things:

1. Rename your asm function as _ASMCIsV and reassemble it
2. Go to your Options --> Compiler --> Advanced Code Generation and turn off the Generate Underbars option and then rebuild your C files completely.

Either way, it should link correctly now

Note that C++ mangling rules differ from C rules. So, if your compiler thinks it is compiling a C++ file, it will mangle the function names differently. To control this, google for 'extern "C" '

Excellent! I managed to get the C & assembly files recognise each others variables & functions. Thanks to Scorpions4ever for telling me about C mangles variable & function names by prefixing an underscore in front. Now I get a different problem:

Linker Error: Fixup overflow at _TEXT:0002, target = vaddr in module asm.asm
...

It appears there's a linker error line for each of my variables surrounded by [ ], eg.

ASMClsV PROC Near
mov es, [vaddr]
; bla bla
ASMClsV EndP


What does this Fixup overflow mean?

Fixup overflow.

I read the cool document about Fixup Overflow at /~jakov/community.borland.com/15961.html but still unsuccessful. I fixed this problem myself by moving the variables from the C file to assembly file.

C file:
extern unsigned short vaddr; //Pascal word type
extern long AsmY; //Pascal integer type
extern void *ScrOfsPtr; //Pascal pointer type

Assembly file:
.DATA
PUBLIC vaddr, AsmY, ScrOfsPtr
vaddr label word
AsmY label word
ScrOfsPtr label dword


Now I don't know why I need the label before word/dword. What does that mean? And is that correct corresponding to the C & Pascal types?