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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places where rld will look for DLLs before it looks for public DLLs. See Specifying
Runtime Search Path Information for DLLs on page 4-18.
-rld_L <path>
The string specified by <path> should be a list of directories and/or subvolumes
separated by colons. At runtime, the specified directories and/or subvolumes are
places where rld will look for DLLs after it looks for public DLLs. See Specifying
Runtime Search Path Information for DLLs on page 4-18.
-rpath
synonym for -rld_L.
-s
Omit the DWARF symbol table when creating the output file. See Creating Import
Libraries on page 3-11.
-set <attribute> <value>
Set the specified attribute to have the specified value in the loadfile being created.
The following chart lists the attributes, their possible values, their defaults if not
specified, and the section of this document to look at for more information.
Table 5-1. Set Attributes
Attribute Name Allowable Values Default
See Section for
Details
CPPDialect |
CPlusPlusDialect
neutral | cppneutral These two names
and values are
synonymous. Use
one only. The value
comes from the
input linkfiles
eld Functionality for
64-Bit on page 4-12
data_model ilp32 | lp64 |neutral ilp32 See eld
Functionality for 64-
Bit on page 4-12
floattype ieee | neutral |
tandem
The value comes
from the input
linkfiles
Processing of
Floating Point
Versions and Data
Models on
page 4-16
float_lib_overrule on | off off Processing of
Floating Point
Versions and Data
Models on
page 4-16










