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Dear gurus:

Is there a hardcopy reference (title, author)
that can explain the principles of the UNIX
loader/linker, ESP. the difference between
one-pass/two-pass linkers.  I am spending
gobs of time permuting the order of my libraries,
indicating that I don't know the priciples
behind what a linker does.  I have spent a
chunk of time trying to locate such a reference
already and can assert that it is not readily
available.  (The Aho book is too general,
clarity counts.)

Any tips or suggestions or opinions greatly
appreciated.

Joe Talafous

If you are experiencing order-dependencies in your linkage, your linker
is probably an ancient 1-pass implementation.  When working with those,
it is not uncommon to see a library specified multiple times on the linker
command line, as in:

cc -o something something.o -lc -lsomethingelse -lc

Quote:

>Dear gurus:

>Is there a hardcopy reference (title, author)
>that can explain the principles of the UNIX
>loader/linker, ESP. the difference between
>one-pass/two-pass linkers.  I am spending
>gobs of time permuting the order of my libraries,
>indicating that I don't know the priciples
>behind what a linker does.  I have spent a
>chunk of time trying to locate such a reference
>already and can assert that it is not readily
>available.  (The Aho book is too general,
>clarity counts.)

>Any tips or suggestions or opinions greatly
>appreciated.

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