GNU gold developer on linker basics (2007)

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36 points·bigfoot··5 comments

I find that one of the subjects with the rarest of documentation is linkers. I often run into linking problems and all I have is the gnu linker manual.

Partly the problem is that linker people are unaware that the new generation of software engineers have no knowledge of linkers. I hope he goes one step further and makes a book out of it.

We have a book by John Levine, but it's too outdated.

http://www.iecc.com/linker/

Anyone interested in an up-to-date version of such a book?

The subsequent blog entries on linker basics can simply be reached by increasing the number in the link (i.e., /39, /40, and so on).

Thanks! I was thinking it was a little lacking in depth with just that one part :)

For the lazy:

Part 1 - http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38

Part 2 - http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/39

Part 3 - http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/40

Part 4 - http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/41

Part 5 - http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/42

Part 6 - http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/43