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Linking & Loading a Process
- More UNIX notes:
- Unix nm command will print part of the symbol table of an object file and/or executable binary.
- UNIX ar command used to manage libraries of object files (“.a” files on UNIX; “.lib” files on DOS/WIN).
- For more information, see the following man pages: ld, nm, a.out, ar, strip & elf.
- The linker is responsible for combining one or more object files along with zero or more libraries into a load module (executable binary).
- Linker steps are quite involved (page 382-383) but boil down to two steps: relocation and linking.