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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.
Contents
1 Linking and Loading
1.1 What do Linkers and Loaders Do?
1.2 Address Binding: A Histrical Perspective
1.3 Linking vs.
Loading
1.4 Compiler Drivers
1.5 Linking: A True Life Example
2 Architectural Issues
2.1 Application Binary Interfaces
2.2 Memory Addresses
2.3 Address Formation
2.4 Instruction Formats
2.5 Procedure Calls and Accessibility
2.6 Data and Instruction References
2.7 Paging and Virtual Memory
2.8 Intel 386 Segmentation
2.9 Embedded Architectures
3 Object Files
3.1 What Goes Into
an Object File?
3.2 The Null Object Format: DOS COM Files
3.3 Code Sections: UNIX a.out Files
3.4 Relocation: DOS EXE Files
3.5 Symbols
and Relocation
3.6 Relocatalble a.out
3.7 UNIX ELF
3.8 IBM 360 Object Format
3.9 Microsoft Portable Executable Format
3.10 Intel/Microsoft
OMF Files
3.11 Comparison of Object Formats
4 Storage Allocation
4.1 Segments and Addresses
4.2 Simple Storage Layout
4.3 Multiple-Sgement Types
4.4 Segment and Page Alignment
4.5 Common Blocks and Other Special Segments
4.6 Linker Control Scripts
4.7
Storage Allocation in Practice
5 Symbol Management
5.1 Binding and Name Resolution
5.2 Symbol Table Formats
5.3 Name
Mangling
5.4 Weak External and Other Kinds of Symbols
5.5 Maintaining Debugging Information
6 Libraries
6.1 Purpose
of Libraries
6.2 Library Formats
6.3 Craeting Libraries
6.4 Searching Libraries
6.5 Performance Issues
6.6 Weak External Symbols
7
Relocation
7.1 Hardware and Software Relocation
7.2 Link-Time and Load-Time Relocation
7.3 Symbol and Segment Relocation
7.4
Basic Relocation Techniques
7.5 Relinkable and Relocatable Output Formats
7.6 Other Relocation Formats
7.7 Relocaton Special Cases
8
Loading and Overlays
8.1 Basic Loading
8.2 Basic Loading, with Relocation
8.3 Position-Independent Code
8.4 Bootstrap Loading
8.5 Tree-Structured Overlays
9 Shared Libraries
9.1 Binding Time
9.2 Shared Libraries in Practice
9.3 Address Space
Management
9.4 Structure of Shared Libraries
9.5 Creating Shared Libraries
9.6 Limking With Shared Libraries
9.7 Running With Shared
Libraries
9.8 The malloc Hack and Other Shared-Library Problems
10 Dynamic Linking and Loading
10.1 ELF Dynamic Linking
10.2 Contents of an ELF File
10.3 Loading a Dynamically Linked Program
10.4 Lazy Procedure Linking with the PLT
10.5 Other Peculiarities
of Dynamic Linking
10.6 Dynamic Loading of Run Time
10.7 Microsoft Dynamic-Link Libraries
10.8 OSF/1 Pseiudo-Static Shared Libraries
10.9 Making Shared Libraries Fast
10.10 Comparison of Dynamic Linking Approaches
11 - Advanced Techniques
11.1 Techniques
for C++
11.2 Incremental Linking and Relinking
11.3 Link-Time Garbage Collection
11.4 Link-Time Optimization
11.5 Link-Time Code Generation
11.6 The Java Linking Model
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 256 pages, publication date: OCT-1999
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-496-4
ISBN-10: 1-55860-496-0
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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