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5 >Linker Operation</TITLE
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8 CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK
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37 ><TH
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38 COLSPAN="3"
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39 ALIGN="center"
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40 >LW Tool Chain</TH
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41 ></TR
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42 ><TR
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43 ><TD
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44 WIDTH="10%"
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50 >Prev</A
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53 WIDTH="80%"
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54 ALIGN="center"
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55 VALIGN="bottom"
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56 >Chapter 4. LWLINK</TD
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57 ><TD
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76 NAME="AEN911"
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77 >4.2. Linker Operation</A
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78 ></H1
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79 ><P
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80 > LWLINK takes one or more files in supported input formats and links them
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81 into a single binary. Currently supported formats are the LWTOOLS object
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82 file format and the archive format used by LWAR. While the precise method is
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83 slightly different, linking can be conceptualized as the following steps. </P
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84 ><P
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85 ></P
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87 TYPE="1"
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88 ><LI
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89 ><P
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90 >First, the linker loads a linking script. If no script is specified, it
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91 loads a built-in default script based on the output format selected. This
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92 script tells the linker how to lay out the various sections in the final
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93 binary.</P
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94 ></LI
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95 ><LI
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96 ><P
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97 >Next, the linker reads all the input files into memory. At this time, it
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98 flags any format errors in those files. It constructs a table of symbols
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99 for each object at this time.</P
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100 ></LI
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101 ><LI
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102 ><P
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103 >The linker then proceeds with organizing the sections loaded from each file
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104 according to the linking script. As it does so, it is able to assign addresses
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105 to each symbol defined in each object file. At this time, the linker may
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106 also collapse different instances of the same section name into a single
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107 section by appending the data from each subsequent instance of the section
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108 to the first instance of the section.</P
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109 ></LI
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110 ><LI
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111 ><P
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112 >Next, the linker looks through every object file for every incomplete reference.
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113 It then attempts to fully resolve that reference. If it cannot do so, it
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114 throws an error. Once a reference is resolved, the value is placed into
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115 the binary code at the specified section. It should be noted that an
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116 incomplete reference can reference either a symbol internal to the object
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117 file or an external symbol which is in the export list of another object
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118 file.</P
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119 ></LI
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120 ><LI
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121 ><P
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122 >If all of the above steps are successful, the linker opens the output file
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123 and actually constructs the binary.</P
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124 ></LI
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125 ></OL
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