Using ld

The GNU linker

ld version 2

Version 2.9-beos-980929

• 1. Overview
• 2. Invocation
  • 2.1 Command Line Options
  • 2.2 Environment Variables
• 3. Linker Scripts
  • 3.1 Basic Linker Script Concepts
  • 3.2 Linker Script Format
  • 3.3 Simple Linker Script Example
  • 3.4 Simple Linker Script Commands
    • 3.4.1 Setting the entry point
    • 3.4.2 Commands dealing with files
    • 3.4.3 Commands dealing with object file formats
    • 3.4.4 Other linker script commands
  • 3.5 Assigning Values to Symbols
    • 3.5.1 Simple Assignments
    • 3.5.2 PROVIDE
  • 3.6 SECTIONS command
    • 3.6.1 Output section description
    • 3.6.2 Output section name
    • 3.6.3 Output section address
    • 3.6.4 Input section description
      • 3.6.4.1 Input section basics
      • 3.6.4.2 Input section wildcard patterns
      • 3.6.4.3 Input section for common symbols
      • 3.6.4.4 Input section and garbage collection
      • 3.6.4.5 Input section example
    • 3.6.5 Output section data
    • 3.6.6 Output section keywords
    • 3.6.7 Output section discarding
    • 3.6.8 Output section attributes
      • 3.6.8.1 Output section type
      • 3.6.8.2 Output section LMA
      • 3.6.8.3 Output section region
      • 3.6.8.4 Output section phdr
      • 3.6.8.5 Output section fill
    • 3.6.9 Overlay description
  • 3.7 MEMORY command
  • 3.8 PHDRS Command
  • 3.9 VERSION Command
  • 3.10 Expressions in Linker Scripts
    • 3.10.1 Constants
    • 3.10.2 Symbol Names
    • 3.10.3 The Location Counter
    • 3.10.4 Operators
    • 3.10.5 Evaluation
    • 3.10.6 The Section of an Expression
    • 3.10.7 Builtin Functions
  • 3.11 Implicit Linker Scripts
• 4. Machine Dependent Features
  • 4.1 ld and the H8/300
  • 4.2 ld and the Intel 960 family
  • 4.3 ld's support for interworking between ARM and Thumb code
• 5. BFD
  • 5.1 How it works: an outline of BFD
    • 5.1.1 Information Loss
    • 5.1.2 The BFD canonical object-file format
• 6. Reporting Bugs
  • 6.1 Have you found a bug?
  • 6.2 How to report bugs
• A. MRI Compatible Script Files
• Index

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