Table of Contents
This Guide covers the following topics:
Chapter 1 “What's New in Recent Releases ” lists new features added in recent releases.
Chapter 2 “What Happens When You Compile and Link a Program ” provides details on compiling and linking programs.
Chapter 3 “Linker Tasks” lists many ways you can specify how you want your program linked.
Chapter 4 “Linker Tools” list the tools available in the linker toolset.
Chapter 5 “Creating and Using Libraries ” discusses all aspects of both archive and shared libraries.
Chapter 6 “Shared Library Management Routines ” explains how to explicitly load libraries at run time using shared library management routines.
Chapter 7 “Position-Independent Code ” describes how to write position-independent assembly code.
Chapter 8 “Ways to Improve Performance ” discusses several ways to optimize your program.
Appendix A “Using Mapfiles” describes mapfiles.
Glossary contains definitions of important terms in this manual.
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