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The GNU linker ld (GNU Binutils) Version 2.36.50 Steve Chamberlain Ian Lance Taylor Red Hat Inc [email protected], [email protected] The GNU linker Edited by Jeffrey Osier ([email protected]) Copyright c 1991-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled \GNU Free Documentation License". i Table of Contents 1 Overview :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 1 2 Invocation ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 3 2.1 Command-line Options ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 3 2.1.1 Options Specific to i386 PE Targets :::::::::::::::::::::: 39 2.1.2 Options specific to C6X uClinux targets :::::::::::::::::: 47 2.1.3 Options specific to Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12 targets :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 47 2.1.4 Options specific to Motorola 68K target :::::::::::::::::: 47 2.2 Environment Variables :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 47 3 Linker Scripts:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 49 3.1 Basic Linker Script Concepts :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 49 3.2 Linker Script Format :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 50 3.3 Simple Linker Script Example ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 50 3.4 Simple Linker Script Commands :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 51 3.4.1 Setting the Entry Point :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 51 3.4.2 Commands Dealing with Files :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 51 3.4.3 Commands Dealing with Object File Formats::::::::::::: 53 3.4.4 Assign alias names to memory regions :::::::::::::::::::: 53 3.4.5 Other Linker Script Commands::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 56 3.5 Assigning Values to Symbols :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 58 3.5.1 Simple Assignments :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 58 3.5.2 HIDDEN::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 59 3.5.3 PROVIDE ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 59 3.5.4 PROVIDE HIDDEN ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 60 3.5.5 Source Code Reference ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 60 3.6 SECTIONS Command :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 61 3.6.1 Output Section Description::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 62 3.6.2 Output Section Name :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 62 3.6.3 Output Section Address :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 62 3.6.4 Input Section Description :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 63 3.6.4.1 Input Section Basics::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 63 3.6.4.2 Input Section Wildcard Patterns::::::::::::::::::::: 65 3.6.4.3 Input Section for Common Symbols:::::::::::::::::: 67 3.6.4.4 Input Section and Garbage Collection:::::::::::::::: 67 3.6.4.5 Input Section Example :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 67 3.6.5 Output Section Data ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 68 3.6.6 Output Section Keywords :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 69 3.6.7 Output Section Discarding ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 70 3.6.8 Output Section Attributes:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 70 3.6.8.1 Output Section Type :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 71 ii The GNU linker 3.6.8.2 Output Section LMA :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 71 3.6.8.3 Forced Output Alignment ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 72 3.6.8.4 Forced Input Alignment ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 72 3.6.8.5 Output Section Constraint::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 73 3.6.8.6 Output Section Region :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 73 3.6.8.7 Output Section Phdr :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 73 3.6.8.8 Output Section Fill:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 73 3.6.9 Overlay Description :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 73 3.7 MEMORY Command ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 75 3.8 PHDRS Command :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 76 3.9 VERSION Command ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 79 3.10 Expressions in Linker Scripts ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 82 3.10.1 Constants ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 82 3.10.2 Symbolic Constants ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 82 3.10.3 Symbol Names :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 82 3.10.4 Orphan Sections :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 83 3.10.5 The Location Counter::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 83 3.10.6 Operators ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 85 3.10.7 Evaluation :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 85 3.10.8 The Section of an Expression :::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 86 3.10.9 Builtin Functions ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 87 3.11 Implicit Linker Scripts ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 91 4 Linker Plugins ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 93 4.1 Static Library Dependencies Plugin ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 93 5 Machine Dependent Features::::::::::::::::: 95 5.1 ld and the H8/300 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 95 5.2 ld and the Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12 families::::::::::::: 95 5.2.1 Linker Relaxation :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 95 5.2.2 Trampoline Generation ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 96 5.3 ld and the ARM family ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 96 5.4 ld and HPPA 32-bit ELF Support ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 100 5.5 ld and the Motorola 68K family ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 100 5.6 ld and MMIX ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 100 5.7 ld and MSP430 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 101 5.8 ld and PowerPC 32-bit ELF Support :::::::::::::::::::::::: 101 5.9 ld and PowerPC64 64-bit ELF Support :::::::::::::::::::::: 102 5.10 ld and SPU ELF Support :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 105 5.11 ld's Support for Various TI COFF Versions ::::::::::::::::: 106 5.12 ld and WIN32 (cygwin/mingw) ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 107 5.13 ld and Xtensa Processors ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 114 6 BFD ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 117 6.1 How It Works: An Outline of BFD ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 117 6.1.1 Information Loss :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 117 6.1.2 The BFD canonical object-file format:::::::::::::::::::: 118 iii 7 Reporting Bugs :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 121 7.1 Have You Found a Bug? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 121 7.2 How to Report Bugs ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 121 Appendix A MRI Compatible Script Files :: 125 Appendix B GNU Free Documentation License ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 127 LD Index ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: 135 Chapter 1: Overview 1 1 Overview ld combines a number of object and archive files, relocates their data and ties up symbol references. Usually the last step in compiling a program is to run ld. ld accepts Linker Command Language files written in a superset of AT&T's Link Editor Command Language syntax, to provide explicit and total control over the linking process. This version of ld uses the general purpose BFD libraries to operate on object files. This allows ld to read, combine, and write object files in many different formats|for example, COFF or a.out. Different formats may be linked together to produce any available kindof object file. See Chapter 6 [BFD], page 117, for more information. Aside from its flexibility, the gnu linker is more helpful than other linkers in providing diagnostic information. Many linkers abandon execution immediately upon encountering an error; whenever possible, ld continues executing, allowing you to identify other errors (or, in some cases, to get an output file in spite of the error). Chapter 2: Invocation 3 2 Invocation The gnu linker ld is meant to cover a broad range of situations, and to be as compatible as possible with other linkers. As a result, you have many choices to control its behavior. 2.1 Command-line Options The linker supports a plethora of command-line options, but in actual practice few of them are used in any particular context. For instance, a frequent use of ld is to link standard Unix object files on a standard, supported Unix system. On such a system, to link afile hello.o: ld -o output /lib/crt0.o hello.o -lc This tells ld to produce a file called output as the result of linking the file /lib/crt0.o with hello.o and the library libc.a, which will come from the standard search directories. (See the discussion of the `-l' option below.) Some of the command-line options to ld may be specified at any point in the command line. However, options which refer to files, such as-l ` ' or `-T', cause the file to be read at the point at which the option appears in the command line, relative to the object files and other file options. Repeating non-file options with a different argument will either haveno further effect, or override prior occurrences (those further to the left on the command line) of that option. Options which may be meaningfully specified more than once are noted in the descriptions below. Non-option arguments are object files or archives which are to be linked together. They may follow, precede, or be mixed in with command-line options, except that an object file argument may not be placed between an option and its argument. Usually the linker is invoked with at least one object file, but you can specify other forms of binary input files using-l ` ', `-R', and the script command language. If no binary input files at all are specified, the linker does not produce any output, and issues themessage`No input files'. If the linker cannot recognize the format of an object file, it will assume that it is a linker
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