Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 12:33:15 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Yoav Cohen-Sivan <ycs@netvision.net.il> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Info on link-editing Message-ID: <199809151933.MAA00494@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 18:31:03 %2B0300." <35FE8837.E24C5AA1@netvision.net.il>
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> Can anyone point me to a good in-depth discussion of the link-editing and > loading processes? I am looking for info on how the linker and compiler use > symbols and relocations to generate the various object files. > > I've searched using every web engine I know of to no avail... There is a reasonably succinct description of the FreeBSD a.out shared library implementation in the link(5) manpage, which is well worth reading even if it is a little historic now. 8) The ELF documentation (which we should have a link to somewhere) should cover the datastructures and processes related to ELF, from which you can also learn a lot. Aside from that, this is one of those journeyman topics that traditionally one researches with source code and experimentation. I doubt that many CS compiler courses bother with it. 8) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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