Re: followup on question about gcc compiling and linking

[Kai Ruottu <karuottu at mbnet dot fi>]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> is there a decent write-up on all of this somewhere?  and what are
> those other crt*.o files for?

There really is... And if you are the guy who once produced gcc-2.5.7?
for SCO 3.2, binutils and glibc-1.0.8 too, then you know where those
SVR4 "Developer Specs for Developers" docs are in the SCO site :-)

But when not knowing what the situation with the "Linux having copied
things from SVR4" case is now, publicly telling where Linux people can
find the SVR4 docs and download them and then reproduce Linux docs and
with the same words (words using english), maybe in a different order,
but anyhow with just the same words, maybe would spoil any "clean room"
approach for the equivalent Linux docs :-)

Anyhow the AT&T ELF etc. docs, "Tool Interface Standards (TIS)", plus
the 'white papers' from Linux guys like H.J.Lu's, "ELF: From The
Programmer's Perspective", Hongjiu Lu, May 1995, are available and
more safe to use...

The first words written in Google gave as the first hit :

http://linux4u.jinr.ru/usoft/WWW/www_debian.org/Documentation/elf/elf.html

And the second one gave :

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall05/cos217/reading/elf.pdf

It seems that if one can invent the right search words, anything can be
found again... (I had these text printed from the late 90's...)


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