On 4/14/2012 3:56 AM, Manu wrote:
How do you define 'the' linker?
Takes object files and builds an executable.
Is this also how ld and link.exe works?
It's how every linker I've ever used and heard of works.Keep in mind that an object file consists of blocks of BINARY data attached to symbols. There is no meaning in the binary data. The linker knows nothing about the meaning of that binary data, or where it came from. Run the "dumpobj" utility over an object file and you'll see what I mean.
