[Scummvm-devel] Linkable SCUMM object format

[David Given]

I'm speccing out a format for SCUMM object files (which, in finest SCUMM 
tradition, I'm calling SLOB). This is intended to allow multiple object files 
to be linked together to create a fully-fledged SCUMM archive.

I'm trying to think of the information I need to provide. I'm pretty sure I 
need:

1. To tell the linker which resources represent objects, and what object they 
are. (I don't think the object type and number are actually contained within 
the resource. There certainly isn't anything in the RMHD chunk in a ROOM, for 
example.)

2. To tell the linker where values that need fixing up are. (For example, 
scripts will reference objects by number, but the object number won't be 
known until the final link is done.) Fixups can be an object number or an 
object offset in another resource.

What have I forgotten?

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