By
John Levine, author, Trumansburg, New York, U.S.A.
Description
Whatever your programming language, whatever your platform, you probably tap into linker and loader functions all the time. But do you
know how to use them to their greatest possible advantage? Only now, with the publication of
Linkers & Loaders, is there
an authoritative book devoted entirely to these deep-seated compile-time and run-time processes.
The book begins with a detailed and
comparative account of linking and loading that illustrates the differences among various compilers and operating systems. On top of
this foundation, the author presents clear practical advice to help you create faster, cleaner code. You'll learn to avoid the pitfalls
associated with Windows DLLs, take advantage of the space-saving, performance-improving techniques supported by many modern linkers,
make the best use of the UNIX ELF library scheme, and much more. If you're serious about programming, you'll devour this unique guide
to one of the field's least understood topics.
Linkers & Loaders is also an ideal supplementary text for compiler and
operating systems courses.
Audience:
practicing programmers, computer language designers and developers, and students.
