Object file creation and linking...

    After attacking our campus libraries online search system,
I was depressed to find that there weren't any references to
the generation of object files and the subsequent linking
process.


    Sure, there were a number of books which entailed the
generation of code, but they usually dealt with creating
assembler code or machine language.


    I am working on a custom compiler/linker system. The model
I have is working, but the object code is specific for the output
of that compiler. I am interested in opening the object file format
to enable the use of other language compilers, but I am unsure
at this point what those will be. Therefore, I can't set the
object code format into stone. This means that everything
will have to be modified if a new compiler must change the
object file format.


    What's a good and general format for an object file? Does
anyone know of any good references for the output of object
files and the subsequent linking process?


Dave.


(Reply via email & I will post a follow up...)


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Dave Nebinger dnebing@andy.bgsu.edu
Network Manager, Biology Dept. dnebing@opie.bgsu.edu
Bowling Green State University dnebing@bgsuopie (bitnet)
Bowling Green, OH 43403
[The whole question of object code and linkers is not
well treated in the books that I know. -John]


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