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| Preface | |
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| Linking and Loading | |
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| What Do Linkers and Loaders Do? | |
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| Address Binding: A Historical Perspective | |
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| Linking vs. Loading | |
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| Compiler Drivers | |
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| Linking: A True-Life Example | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Architectural Issues | |
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| Application Binary Interfaces | |
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| Memory Addresses | |
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| Address Formation | |
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| Instruction Formats | |
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| Procedure Calls and Addressability | |
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| Data and Instruction References | |
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| Paging and Virtual Memory | |
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| Intel 386 Segmentation | |
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| Embedded Architectures | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Object Files | |
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| What Goes into an Object File? | |
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| The Null Object Format: DOS COM Files | |
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| Code Sections: UNIX a.out Files | |
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| Relocation: DOS EXE Files | |
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| Symbols and Relocation | |
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| Relocatable a.out | |
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| UNIX ELF | |
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| IBM 360 Object Format | |
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| Microsoft Portable Executable Format | |
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| Intel/Microsoft OMF Files | |
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| Comparison of Object Formats | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Storage Allocation | |
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| Segments and Addresses | |
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| Simple Storage Layout | |
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| Multiple-Segment Types | |
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| Segment and Page Alignment | |
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| Common Blocks and Other Special Segments | |
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| Linker Control Scripts | |
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| Storage Allocation in Practice | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Symbol Management | |
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| Binding and Name Resolution | |
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| Symbol Table Formats | |
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| Name Mangling | |
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| Weak External and Other Kinds of Symbols | |
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| Maintaining Debugging Information | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Libraries | |
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| Purpose of Libraries | |
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| Library Formats | |
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| Creating Libraries | |
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| Searching Libraries | |
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| Performance Issues | |
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| Weak External Symbols | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Relocation | |
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| Hardware and Software Relocation | |
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| Link-Time and Load-Time Relocation | |
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| Symbol and Segment Relocation | |
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| Basic Relocation Techniques | |
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| Relinkable and Relocatable Output Formats | |
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| Other Relocation Formats | |
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| Relocation Special Cases | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Loading and Overlays | |
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| Basic Loading | |
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| Basic Loading, with Relocation | |
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| Position-Independent Code | |
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| Bootstrap Loading | |
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| Tree-Structured Overlays | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Shared Libraries | |
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| Binding Time | |
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| Shared Libraries in Practice | |
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| Address Space Management | |
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| Structure of Shared Libraries | |
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| Creating Shared Libraries | |
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| Linking with Shared Libraries | |
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| Running with Shared Libraries | |
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| The malloc Hack and Other Shared-Library Problems | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Dynamic Linking and Loading | |
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| ELF Dynamic Linking | |
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| Contents of an ELF File | |
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| Loading a Dynamically Linked Program | |
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| Lazy Procedure Linkage with the PLT | |
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| Other Peculiarities of Dynamic Linking | |
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| Dynamic Loading at Run Time | |
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| Microsoft Dynamic-Link Libraries | |
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| OSF/1 Pseudo-Static Shared Libraries | |
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| Making Shared Libraries Fast | |
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| Comparison of Dynamic Linking Approaches | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| Advanced Techniques | |
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| Techniques for C++ | |
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| Incremental Linking and Relinking | |
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| Link-Time Garbage Collection | |
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| Link-Time Optimization | |
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| Link-Time Code Generation | |
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| The Java Linking Model | |
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| Exercises | |
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| Project | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |