Must Read: Ian Lance Taylor's 20-part series on Linkers (the articles are on his blog but linked to in one place here) - https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/ https:

Must Read: Ian Lance Taylor's 20-part series on Linkers (the articles are on his blog but linked to in one place here) - https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/ https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/ But Honjiu Lu's ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective (https://beefchunk.com/documentation/sys-programming/binary_formats/elf/elf_from_the_programmers_perspective/elf.html https://beefchunk.com/documentation/sys-programming/binary_f...) is what did the trick for me. It provides a very good and succinct overview. Reference: See also Using ld the GNU Linker co-authored by Ian Lance Taylor.