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Rust Unlinked - A Journey Through Rustc, Symbols, and Static Libraries

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Curious how a linker works with Rust programs on Unix-like systems? I’ll share my insights on linking, rustc, symbol resolution, and the ELF format. We’ll explore the quirks of manually linking static libraries, understand LTO, compare linkers, and peek into .o files. Let’s link all the pieces together!

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Shriram Balaji

Engineering @ Microsoft

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