question about linker

[Eric Christopher]

On Sep 9, 2005, at 10:28 AM, sean yang wrote:

> Hi
> I am looking for the source code related to linking stage--coz I am  
> trying to modify (very slightly) the linker. I understand that 'ld'  
> is the linker in Linux. My question is:
> Is 'ld' a part of gcc toolchain?
> --If it is, I should be able to find source file producing 'ld'.  
> But I haven't found the source file to be compiled to 'ld'.
> --If it's not, main() of gcc.c should invoke ld if it found the '- 
> o' option. But I didn't find the invocation either(maybe it's not a  
> straightforward invocation).

The linker is ld, and is in the binutils package. http:// 
sourceware.org/binutils/.

To see what's really going on try adding -v and -Wl,-v to your gcc  
command line.

-eric