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