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Re: What does the linker do with a shared library?
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: morrell at alumni dot ucsd dot edu
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:55:34 -0700
- Subject: Re: What does the linker do with a shared library?
- References: <160210.65189.qm@web112611.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Michael Morrell <morrell@alumni.ucsd.edu> writes:
> I'm trying to find some detailed information on exactly what the linker does
> when it processes a shared library (for ELF systems).
>
> At the minimum, it sticks the name of the library in the dynamic section,
> but I'm not sure if it needs to do anything else.
>
> Is this described in detail anywhere (or do I have to grovel through
> the source)?
Here is a brief writeup I did a while back:
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/41
http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/42
Ian