Linking and Loading. Architectural Issues. Object Files. Storage Allocation. Symbol Management. Libraries. Relocation. Loading and Overlays. Shared Libraries. Dynamic Linking and Loading. Advanced Techniques.
*Includes a linker construction project written in Perl, with
project files available for download. *Covers dynamic linking in
Windows, UNIX, Linux, BeOS, and other operating systems.
*Explains the Java linking model and how it figures in network
applets and extensible Java code.
*Helps you write more elegant and effective code, and build
applications that compile, load, and run more efficiently.
John Levine is the author or co-author of many books, including lex & yac (O'Reilly), Programming for Graphics Files in C and C++ (Wiley), and The Internet for Dummies (IDG). He is also publisher emeritus of the Journal of C Language Translation, long-time moderator of the comp.compilers newsgroup, and the creator of one of the first commercial Fortran 77 compilers. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.
"I enjoyed reading this useful overview of the techniques and challenges of implementing linkers and loaders. While most of the examples are focused on three computer architectures that are widely used today, there are also many side comments about interesting and quirky computer architectures of the past. I can tell from these war stories that the author really has been there himself and survived to tell the tale." --Guy Steele
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