Yes, Linkers and Loaders is an excellent book. There's also this 20 part linker essay by Ian Lance Taylor who went on to write gold: http://inai.de/documents/

Yes, Linkers and Loaders is an excellent book. There's also this 20 part linker essay by Ian Lance Taylor who went on to write gold: http://inai.de/documents/Linkers.pdf http://inai.de/documents/Linkers.pdf https://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/lfcs2010_taylor.pdf https://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/lfcs2010_taylor.pd... https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/34417.pdf https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... And while gold is good, lld ups the bar even a little further. https://lld.llvm.org/ https://lld.llvm.org/