Stevens, Kevin wrote:
The author also offers the book in manuscript form (aka unedited) for free on the web. I read this book back in college, when I also felt in the dark about how exactly object files and linkers work. While interesting, you are probably not going to feel a whole lot more comfortable working directly with the linker or understanding often cryptic link errors. Link here: http://www.iecc.com/linker/
A decent article with a good amount of depth can also be found at Linux Journal: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6463
A huge thanks for these! It's not about being a better debugger, but about understanding the ideology behind object files and such. But on the other hand, I guess it WILL help in the deciphering of errors, because then I won't be so prone to do stupid commands that are obviously wrong when you understand the fundamentals. niko