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Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Linker Script (2021)
level software usually has lots of .cc or .rs files. Even lower-level software, like your cryptography library, probably has .S containing assembly, my least favorite language for code review.
This process is extremely memory-intensive; it is possible for colossal binaries, especially ones with tons of debug information, to “fail to link” because the linker exhausts the system’s memory. Thankfully, Ian Lance Taylor, mad linker scientist and author of gold, has written several excellent words on this topic: https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/. Thankfully, Ian Lance Taylor, mad linker scientist and author of gold, has written several excellent words on this topic: https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/.
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