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From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: Linkers & Loaders, books & article references sought
Keywords: linker, bibliography
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Date: 25 Jan 91 15:01:31 GMT
References: <9101240056.16069@munnari.oz.au>
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In article <9101240056.16069@munnari.oz.au> Neil Murray writes:
> 	On recent perusal of my bookshelf I noticed a goodly number of 
> books on compiler theory but very little on linkers & loaders.  

Perhaps this article would help:

D. W. Jones.  "Assembly Language as Object Code."  Software Practice and
  Experience, Vol 13, No. 8, pages 715-725.

  In this paper, I point out that a decent assembler (with macro and
  conditional features, as well as a source inclusion directive) can
  do everything we usually associate with linkage editors from the
  FORTRAN generation (with the exception of automatic overlay management).
  The particular assembler described in this paper is available from me
  on request.

					Doug Jones
					jones@cs.uiowa.edu
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