Workings of gcc and ld in plain view

Workings of the GNU Compiler for IA-32

Overview

• Overview (pdf)

Data Processing

• Access (pdf)
• Operators (pdf)

Control

• Conditions (pdf)
• Control (pdf)

Function calls

• Procedure (pdf)
• Recursion (pdf)

Pointer and Aggregate Types

• Arrays (pdf)
• Structures (pdf)
• Alignment (pdf)
• Pointers (pdf)

Integer Arithmetic

• Borrow (pdf)
• Overflow (pdf)

Workings of the GNU Linker for IA-32

Overview

• Static Linking Overview (pdf)

• Dynamic Linking Overview (pdf)

• Shared Library Background (pdf)

Library Search Path

• Library Search Path (pdf)

• Library Search Using -rpath (pdf)

• Library Search Examples (pdf)

Linking Process

• Object Files (A.pdf, B.pdf)

• Symbols (A.pdf, B.pdf)

• Relocation (A.pdf, B.pdf)

• Loading (A.pdf, B.pdf)

• Static Linking (A.pdf, B.pdf)

• Dynamic Linking (A.pdf, B.pdf)

• Position Independent Code (A.pdf, B.pdf)

Example I

• Vector addition (A.pdf, B.pdf)
• Swapping array elements (A.pdf, B.pdf)
• Nested functions (A.pdf, B.pdf)

Examples II

• analysis of static linking (A.pdf, B.pdf)

• analysis of dynamic linking (A.pdf)

• analysis of PIC (A.pdf)

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