| gold is an ELF linker. It is intended to have complete support for |
| ELF and to run as fast as possible on modern systems. |
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| It is written in C++. It is (intended to be) a GNU program, and |
| therefore follows the GNU formatting standards as modified for C++. |
| Source documents in order of precedence: |
| http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/ |
| http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/C++STYLE |
| http://www.zembu.com/eng/procs/c++style.html |
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| The linker is intended to have complete support for cross-compilation, |
| which still supporting the normal case of native linking as fast as |
| possible. This makes the code more complex. |
| |
| Many functions are actually templates whose parameter is the ELF file |
| class (e.g., 32 bits or 64 bits). The code is the same, but we don't |
| want to pay the execution time cost of always using 64-bit integers if |
| the target is 32 bits. |
