airs-notes

Source

https://www.airs.com/blog/index.php?s=linkers+part

Authored and copyright by Ian Lance Taylor, collected here fore easy lookup.

Index

• Linkers part 1: introduction
• Linkers part 2: technial introduction
• Linkers part 3: address spaces, object file formats
• Linkers part 4: shared libraries
• Linkers part 5: shared libraries redux, ELF symbols
• Linkers part 6: relocations, position-dependent libraries
• Linkers part 7: thread-local storage
• Linkers part 8: ELF segments and sections
• Linkers part 9: symbol versions, relaxation
• Linkers part 10: parallel linking
• Linkers part 11: archives
• Linkers part 12: symbol resolution
• Linkers part 13: symbol versions redux
• Linkers part 14: link-time optimization, initialization code
• Linkers part 15: COMDAT sections
• Linkers part 16: C++ template instantiation, exception frames
• Linkers part 17: warning symbols
• Linkers part 18: incremental linking
• Linkers part 19: __start and __stop symbols, byte swapping
• Linkers part 20: ending note

Other articles included as well:

• GCC exception frames
• Linker combreloc
• Linker relro
• Combining versions
• Version scripts
• Protected symbols
• .eh_frame
• .eh_frame_hdr
• .gcc_except_table
• Executable stack
• Piece of PIE

Even more articles, from MaskRay's blog:

• Stack unwinding
• All about symbol versioning
• C++ exception handling ABI
• LLD and GNU linker incompatibilities
• Copy relocations, canonical PLT entries and protected visibility
• GNU indirect function
• Everything I know about GNU toolchain
• Metadata sections, COMDAT and SHF_LINK_ORDER