# Examples to play with the linker This repo was born out of deep frustration in trying to understand precisely how linkers work. The project contains folders, each of which explores a *single* idea in the working of the linker. #### References: - Airs - Ian Lance Taylor. Incredible blog post series by the author of `gold`. [Reference on symbol resolution](https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/49) is the only place I've ever seen this documented. - Explanation of CRT files. This shows up when one tries to link a C executable manually. [Reference on the different `*crt*` files](https://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/crt.txt). - [Archive linking algorithm](https://web.archive.org/web/20180627210132/http://webpages.charter.net/ppluzhnikov/linker.html). This reference explains how the linker builds the graph of archives that are to be included in the final executable, as well as why the linker is order sensitive.