ELF Support in GCC, GNU Link Editor and Linux

Thanks to Eric Youngdale (eric@aib.com), Ian Lance Taylor (ian@cygnus.com) and many people working on ELF support in gcc, GNU binary utilities and Linux, we can now use gcc and GNU binary utilities to build and run ELF executables as well as build shared libraries.

• The Shared C Library
• The Shared C++ Library
• Extended GCC Features
  • The Initialization Functions in the C library
• Using ELF with GCC and GNU ld
• ELF under Linux
  • ELF macros
  • Library locations and search paths
  • Library versions for shared libraries
  • Linking with a mix of shared and static libraries
  • Loading additional shared libraries
  • Dynamic loading under Linux