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by chisophugis 3408 days ago
> But maybe, they require you to create special versions of object files where even references internal to each library are referenced there as if they live in a different object file? Is that even possible?

The extra information that is needed for an ELF linker (any ELF linker; nothing LLD specific) to operate on functions and global data objects in a fine-grained manner is enabled by -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections.

For more information, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13673589