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Linkers and Loaders (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)

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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.
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Good book on linkers (though a bit dated, and definitely over-priced - worth buying S/H): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Linkers-Kaufmann-Software-Engineeri...
Sep 13, 2019 · ori_b on Building a Better Go Linker
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1558604960
journalctl
I just bought this! It’s fantastic and definitely still more than relevant for understanding the subject.
Not free, but an excellent book along the same lines, is John Levine's "Linkers and Loaders":

http://www.amazon.com/Linkers-Kaufmann-Software-Engineering-...

He's been the moderator of comp.compilers since 1986, so he's got a lot of practical Q&A experience to draw on.

kryptiskt
The author has posted a draft of that for free: http://www.iecc.com/linker/

It's mostly missing the finished illustrations.

I can't comment on its "goodness" but the textbook that sprang to mind is Linkers and Loaders: http://www.amazon.com/Linkers-Kaufmann-Software-Engineering-...

The bad news is that it's from '99 but, as far as the foundations go, I can't imagine linkers back then were that different.

The fundamental book to read would be "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation" ( http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Automata-Theory-Languages...)

Then proceed to Dragonbook.

After finishing Dragonbook, you might like this Linkers and loaders (http://www.amazon.com/Linkers-Kaufmann-Software-Engineering-...)

In general follow this guy Jeff Ullman and you would be good(http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/)

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