ELD User Guide

This document describes usage of ELD

• 1. Getting started
  • 1.1. About the linker
  • 1.2. Source
  • 1.3. Summary of the linker features
  • 1.4. What the linker can accept as input
  • 1.5. What the linker outputs
• 2. Supported Linking Modes
  • 2.1. Static Linking
  • 2.2. Dynamic Linking
  • 2.3. Partial Linking
  • 2.4. PIE
  • 2.5. Shared Libraries
• 3. Supported Targets
• 4. Linker Script
  • 4.1. Overview
  • 4.2. Basic script syntax
  • 4.3. Script commands
  • 4.4. Expressions
  • 4.5. Symbol assignment
  • 4.6. NOCROSSREFS
• 5. Output Section Description
  • 5.1. Syntax
• 6. Linker Map Files
  • 6.1. Map File Styles
  • 6.2. Navigating Text Map File
• 7. Linker Plugins User Guide
  • 7.1. Linker Plugins
  • 7.2. Linker Plugin Examples
  • 7.3. Linker Plugin API Usage and Reference
• 8. Linker Optimization Features
• 9. Getting Image Details
  • 9.1. Overview
  • 9.2. Supported Diagnostic Options
• 10. Command
• 11. Command-line options
  • 11.1. Common options for all the backends
  • 11.2. ARM and AArch64 specific options
  • 11.3. Hexagon specific options
  • 11.4. RISCV specific options
• 12. Target Specific Features
• 13. Linker support and frequently asked questions!!!
  • 13.1. General Linker Questions
  • 13.2. Input File to Linker
  • 13.3. Linker Script General Questions
  • 13.4. Linker Script PHDRS
  • 13.5. String Merging
  • 13.6. Hexagon
  • 13.7. RISC-V
  • 13.8. Usage
  • 13.9. Linker Plugin Framework
  • 13.10. Symbol Resolution
  • 13.11. Build time issues
  • 13.12. Hexagon
  • 13.13. ARM
  • 13.14. Runtime issues
  • 13.15. Improving your image/build
  • 13.16. LinkerPlugin API

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

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