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
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Glossary Index Tables
Legal Notices
What’s New in This Manual v
Manual Information v
New and Changed Information v
About This Manual ix
Notation Conventions xi
1. Introduction to eld
eld Overview 1-1
Example Command Line 1-2
eld Functionality 1-2
Linker Version Information 1-3
Native Object Files 1-3
The Linker Command Stream 1-5
Obey Files and the Use of Standard Input 1-7
Example of Use 1-9
2. eld Input and Output
Host Platforms 2-1
Target Platforms
2-2
Filenames and The File Identifier 2-2
Output Object Files
2-4
The Creation of Output Object Files 2-5
Creating Segments of the Output Loadfile
2-6
Using a DLL Registry
2-8
Input Object Files 2-12
Using Archives
2-16
3. Binding of References
Overview 3-1
Presetting Loadfiles
3-5
To Preset or Not to Preset, and Creation of the LIC 3-7