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

Output Listings and Error Handling
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Error Messages
Effect. For informational purposes only (might indicate a problem, see warning 1657
on page 6-124).
Recovery. See the Recovery step of warning 1231 on page 6-38.
Cause. eld encountered global symbols of the same name, <symbol name>, both
of which are common data items and are of different size. The symbol of the larger size
is retained, overriding the smaller common data item.
Effect. Application might not function as expected.
Recovery. Correct the application to not include duplicate global symbols of different
sizes. To know the name of the file in which the larger common data is present, see
Warning 1234 on page 6-39.
Cause. Multiple global symbols of the same name are present in the link files, of which
larger common data is located in <file name>.
Effect. Information (might indicate a problem, see warning 1233).
Recovery. See Recovery step of Warning 1233 on page 6-39.
Cause. eld encountered global symbols of the same name, <symbol name>, both
of which are common data items and are of different sizes. The symbol of the larger
size is retained, overriding the smaller common data item.
Effect. Application might not function as expected.
Recovery. Correct the application to not include duplicate global symbols of different
sizes. To know the name of the file in which the larger common data is present, see
Warning 1234 on page 6-39
.
Cause. Multiple global symbols of the same name are present in the link files, of which
smaller common data is located in <file name>.
Effect. Information (might indicate a problem, see Warning 1235 on page 6-39
).
Recovery. See Recovery step of Warning 1235 on page 6-39
.
1233 <file name>: common of <symbol name> overridden by
larger common.
1234 <file name>: larger common is here.
1235 <file name>: common of <symbol name> overriding smaller
common.
1236 <file name>: smaller common is here.










