Levine, John R. <br/><br/>
Linkers and loaders / 
 Linkers & loaders 
John R. Levine. 
 - San Francisco :  Morgan Kaufmann,  c2000. 
 - xv, 256 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-248) and index. 
<br/><br/> Linking and Loading  What Do Linkers and Loaders Do?  Address Binding: A Historical Perspective  Linking vs. Loading  Compiler Drivers  Linking: A True-Life Example  Architectural Issues  Application Binary Interfaces  Memory Addresses  Address Formation  Instruction Formats  Procedure Calls and Addressability  Data and Instruction References  Paging and Virtual Memory  Intel 386 Segmentation  Embedded Architectures  Object Files  What Goes into an Object File?  Null Object Format: DOS COM Files  Code Sections: UNIX a.out Files  Relocation: DOS EXE Files  Symbols and Relocation  Relocatable a.out  UNIX ELF  IBM 360 Object Format  Microsoft Portable Executable Format  Intel/Microsoft OMF Files  Comparison of Object Formats  Storage Allocation  Segments and Addresses  Simple Storage Layout  Multiple-Segment Types  Segment and Page Alignment  Common Blocks and Other Special Segments  Linker Control Scripts  Storage Allocation in Practice  Symbol Management  Binding and Name Resolution  Symbol Table Formats  Name Mangling  Weak External and Other Kinds of Symbols  Maintaining Debugging Information  Libraries  Purpose of Libraries  Library Formats  Creating Libraries  Searching Libraries  Performance Issues  Weak External Symbols  Relocation  Hardware and Software Relocation  Link-Time and Load-Time Relocation  Symbol and Segment Relocation  Basic Relocation Techniques  Relinkable and Relocatable Output Formats  Other Relocation Formats  Relocation Special Cases  Loading and Overlays  Basic Loading  Basic Loading, with Relocation  Position-Independent Code  Bootstrap Loading  Tree-Structured Overlays  Shared Libraries  Binding Time  Shared Libraries in Practice  Address Space Management  Structure of Shared Libraries  Creating Shared Libraries  Linking with Shared Libraries  Running with Shared Libraries  Malloc Hack and Other Shared-Library Problems  Dynamic Linking and Loading  ELF Dynamic Linking  Contents of an ELF File  Loading a Dynamically Linked Program  Lazy Procedure Linkage with the PLT  Other Peculiarities of Dynamic Linking  Dynamic Loading at Run Time  Microsoft Dynamic-Link Libraries  OSF/1 Pseudo-Static Shared Libraries  Making Shared Libraries Fast  Comparison of Dynamic Linking Approaches  Advanced Techniques  Techniques for C++  Incremental Linking and Relinking  Link-Time Garbage Collection  Link-Time Optimization  Link-Time Code Generation  Java Linking Model  1  1 --  1.1  1 --  1.2  1 --  1.3  5 --  1.4  10 --  1.5  12 --  2  19 --  2.1  20 --  2.2  20 --  2.3  22 --  2.4  23 --  2.5  24 --  2.6  28 --  2.7  34 --  2.8  41 --  2.9  43 --  3  47 --  3.1  47 --  3.2  49 --  3.3  50 --  3.4  56 --  3.5  58 --  3.6  58 --  3.7  62 --  3.8  71 --  3.9  75 --  3.10  84 --  3.11  90 --  4  93 --  4.1  93 --  4.2  94 --  4.3  96 --  4.4  96 --  4.5  98 --  4.6  107 --  4.7  108 --  5  117 --  5.1  117 --  5.2  118 --  5.3  124 --  5.4  129 --  5.5  129 --  6  135 --  6.1  135 --  6.2  136 --  6.3  141 --  6.4  142 --  6.5  144 --  6.6  144 --  7  149 --  7.1  150 --  7.2  151 --  7.3  151 --  7.4  153 --  7.5  159 --  7.6  160 --  7.7  162 --  8  167 --  8.1  167 --  8.2  168 --  8.3  169 --  8.4  176 --  8.5  177 --  9  187 --  9.1  188 --  9.2  190 --  9.3  190 --  9.4  192 --  9.5  192 --  9.6  197 --  9.7  197 --  9.8  199 --  10  205 --  10.1  206 --  10.2  206 --  10.3  210 --  10.4  213 --  10.5  215 --  10.6  216 --  10.7  217 --  10.8  222 --  10.9  223 --  10.10  224 --  11  229 --  11.1  229 --  11.2  233 --  11.3  235 --  11.4  237 --  11.5  238 --  11.6  241. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1558604960 (acid-free paper) 9781558604964 (acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99047127 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Assembling (Electronic computers)<br/>Linkers (Computer programs)<br/>Loaders (Computer programs)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA76.76.A87  / L48 2000 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>005.4/56