Introducing ELF2.0

[Nick Alcock]

On 29 Jan 2025, Frank Ch. Eigler spake thusly:

> Hi -
>
>> The goal here is Relinkability. Even in object-oriented languages,
>> binary Relinkability should be a given.  [...]
>
> You have identified a Solution but not a Problem.

I note that ld actually allowed you to relink already-linked binaries
until quite recently (libctf had to go through some contortions to
permit it -- in fact it still does because a lot of the same stuff is
needed to handle ld -r).

It was removed because of the lack of a use case, because it complicated
things noticeably, and because, well, it was kinda nuts.

Incremental linking, maybe. Relinking things that are already fully
linked... why? What would it even *mean*, given that linking is meant to
resolve everything that needs resolution, so after that there should be
nothing left for further linking passes to do?

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