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Ian Lance Taylor (author of the gold linker) wrote a wonderful 20 part essay to how linkers work: http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38 http://www.airs.com/blog/
by saljam 14y ago
Ian Lance Taylor (author of the gold linker) wrote a wonderful 20 part essay to how linkers work: http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38 http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38
I'd also recommend reading the rest of his blog, at least the programming section. It's very insightful.
- eliben 14y agoIan Lance Taylor is definitely a person I admire. Researching into these topics invariably brings you to his posts on binutils which are very helpful. Moreover, he's written "gold", which does what "ld" does but has an actually comprehensible source code :), and speed, or so I heard.