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Answer by user155813 for Why is the Unix linker called "ld"
Because it is "link editor". For example, Solaris and AIX man pages explicitly say so: Solaris ld man page ld - link-editor for object files AIX ld man page The ld command, also called the linkage...
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Linkers in Linux were originally called loaders. See Assembly Language Step-by-Step: Programming with Linux by Jeff Duntemann: Linking the Object code File ...Linux comes with its own linker, called...
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Tried to search the web and couldn't find an answer. It might have something to do with "load", but that doesn't make much sense to me. Obviously, "ln" was already taken, but where does that "d" come...
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