Official ld linker spec

Question

I'm newbie in C++ and I want to understand how does linker work formally. I'm using Linux Mint 16. Is there exist ld linker official spec?

Answer 1

You might get more idea about linker and shared libraries here also here is man page for ld.so which is linker.

Here is brief description about linker and loaders in Linux.

Answer 2

There is a good book on the whole subject: "Linkers and Loaders" by John Levine. It describes the issues, various different implementations, object formats and a bunch of other interesting stuff.

See Amazon Kindle Edition