RE: RFC: ghc's dynamic linker

On 28 Aug 2002 01:34:37 +0100 Alastair Reid wrote:

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2. The BFD way

I was just about to ask about this. I was going to ask what ghc uses for manipulating .o files. I've come accross BFD through gdb but have never had to use it seriously.

We do it The Hard Way, i.e. we have our own complete object linker. It's a lot simpler than BFD of course, because it only has to handle static linking. It currently supports ELF and the Windows PE object format. Cheers, Simon