eld Manual
Table Of Contents
- eld Manual
- Legal Notices
- Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- Manual Information
- New and Changed Information
- About This Manual
- Notation Conventions
- 1 Introduction to eld
- 2 eld Input and Output
- 3 Binding of References
- Overview
- Presetting Loadfiles
- To Preset or Not to Preset, and Creation of the LIC
- Handling Unresolved References
- Using User Libraries
- Creating Import Libraries
- Ignoring Optional Libraries
- Merging Symbols Found in Input Linkfiles
- Accepting Multiply-Defined Symbols
- Using the -cross_dll_cleanup option
- Specifying Which Symbols to Export, and Creating the Export Digest
- Public Libraries and DLLs
- The Public Library Registry
- 4 Other eld Processing
- Adjusting Loadfiles: The -alf Option
- Additional rules about -alf
- The -set and -change Options
- eld Functionality for 64-Bit
- Checking the C++ Language Dialect
- Renaming Symbols
- Creating Linker-Defined Symbols
- Updating Or Stripping DWARF Symbol Table Information
- Modifying the Data Sections that Contain Stack Unwinding Information
- Creating the MCB
- Processing of Floating Point Versions and Data Models
- Specification of the Main Entry Point
- Specifying Runtime Search Path Information for DLLs
- Merging Source RTDUs
- 5 Summary of Linker Options
- 6 Output Listings and Error Handling
- A TNS/E Native Object Files
- Glossary
- Index

Summary of Linker Options
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-no_preset
Do not preset the loadfile being created. See To Preset or Not to Preset, and
Creation of the LIC on page 3-7.
-no_reexport
Do not reexport DLLs found after this point in the command stream. See How the
Linker Finds Its Input Files and Creates the .liblist Section on page 2-12.
-nostdfiles
At runtime, do not automatically open the standard C I/O files.
See Creating the MCB on page 4-15.
-no_stdfiles
synonym for -nostdfiles.
-nostdlib
Do not look in the standard places for DLLs and archives. See The Steps in
Looking for Archives and DLLs on page 2-17.
-no_stdlib
synonym for -nostdlib.
-noverbose
synonym for -no_verbose.
-no_verbose
Do not show warnings or informational messages unless they are requested by a
linker option. See General Information
on page 6-1.
-no_version_check
Do not perform the object file version check. See Input Object Files on page 2-12.
-NS_extent_size extent-size
Changes the extent size from the default (32 pages) to the specified size.
extent-size
is an even number in the range 2 to 65534, inclusive.
A page has 2048 bytes.
eld uses extent-size for both primary and secondary extents.
Note. For Guardian environment only.










