On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 at 19:45, Peng Yu wrote: > The man is not well written in this and is confusing. It also doesn't > explain the underlying details. The manual seems quite clear regarding those options. If you want more details, you can always go looking in the code. Also see page 15 in https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf More generally, https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/ has links to a series of great blog posts about symbol relocations and linking. https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/549 is from the same author.