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13 This file documents the internals of the GNU linker ld.
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36 @setchapternewpage off
37 @settitle GNU Linker Internals
38 @titlepage
39 @title{A guide to the internals of the GNU linker}
40 @author Per Bothner, Steve Chamberlain, Ian Lance Taylor, DJ Delorie
41 @author Cygnus Support
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67
68 @node Top
69 @top
70
71 This file documents the internals of the GNU linker @code{ld}. It is a
72 collection of miscellaneous information with little form at this point.
73 Mostly, it is a repository into which you can put information about
74 GNU @code{ld} as you discover it (or as you design changes to @code{ld}).
75
76 This document is distributed under the terms of the GNU Free
77 Documentation License. A copy of the license is included in the
78 section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".
79
80 @menu
81 * README:: The README File
82 * Emulations:: How linker emulations are generated
83 * Emulation Walkthrough:: A Walkthrough of a Typical Emulation
84 * GNU Free Documentation License:: GNU Free Documentation License
85 @end menu
86
87 @node README
88 @chapter The @file{README} File
89
90 Check the @file{README} file; it often has useful information that does not
91 appear anywhere else in the directory.
92
93 @node Emulations
94 @chapter How linker emulations are generated
95
96 Each linker target has an @dfn{emulation}. The emulation includes the
97 default linker script, and certain emulations also modify certain types
98 of linker behaviour.
99
100 Emulations are created during the build process by the shell script
101 @file{genscripts.sh}.
102
103 The @file{genscripts.sh} script starts by reading a file in the
104 @file{emulparams} directory. This is a shell script which sets various
105 shell variables used by @file{genscripts.sh} and the other shell scripts
106 it invokes.
107
108 The @file{genscripts.sh} script will invoke a shell script in the
109 @file{scripttempl} directory in order to create default linker scripts
110 written in the linker command language. The @file{scripttempl} script
111 will be invoked 5 (or, in some cases, 6) times, with different
112 assignments to shell variables, to create different default scripts.
113 The choice of script is made based on the command line options.
114
115 After creating the scripts, @file{genscripts.sh} will invoke yet another
116 shell script, this time in the @file{emultempl} directory. That shell
117 script will create the emulation source file, which contains C code.
118 This C code permits the linker emulation to override various linker
119 behaviours. Most targets use the generic emulation code, which is in
120 @file{emultempl/generic.em}.
121
122 To summarize, @file{genscripts.sh} reads three shell scripts: an
123 emulation parameters script in the @file{emulparams} directory, a linker
124 script generation script in the @file{scripttempl} directory, and an
125 emulation source file generation script in the @file{emultempl}
126 directory.
127
128 For example, the Sun 4 linker sets up variables in
129 @file{emulparams/sun4.sh}, creates linker scripts using
130 @file{scripttempl/aout.sc}, and creates the emulation code using
131 @file{emultempl/sunos.em}.
132
133 Note that the linker can support several emulations simultaneously,
134 depending upon how it is configured. An emulation can be selected with
135 the @code{-m} option. The @code{-V} option will list all supported
136 emulations.
137
138 @menu
139 * emulation parameters:: @file{emulparams} scripts
140 * linker scripts:: @file{scripttempl} scripts
141 * linker emulations:: @file{emultempl} scripts
142 @end menu
143
144 @node emulation parameters
145 @section @file{emulparams} scripts
146
147 Each target selects a particular file in the @file{emulparams} directory
148 by setting the shell variable @code{targ_emul} in @file{configure.tgt}.
149 This shell variable is used by the @file{configure} script to control
150 building an emulation source file.
151
152 Certain conventions are enforced. Suppose the @code{targ_emul} variable
153 is set to @var{emul} in @file{configure.tgt}. The name of the emulation
154 shell script will be @file{emulparams/@var{emul}.sh}. The
155 @file{Makefile} must have a target named @file{e@var{emul}.c}; this
156 target must depend upon @file{emulparams/@var{emul}.sh}, as well as the
157 appropriate scripts in the @file{scripttempl} and @file{emultempl}
158 directories. The @file{Makefile} target must invoke @code{GENSCRIPTS}
159 with two arguments: @var{emul}, and the value of the make variable
160 @code{tdir_@var{emul}}. The value of the latter variable will be set by
161 the @file{configure} script, and is used to set the default target
162 directory to search.
163
164 By convention, the @file{emulparams/@var{emul}.sh} shell script should
165 only set shell variables. It may set shell variables which are to be
166 interpreted by the @file{scripttempl} and the @file{emultempl} scripts.
167 Certain shell variables are interpreted directly by the
168 @file{genscripts.sh} script.
169
170 Here is a list of shell variables interpreted by @file{genscripts.sh},
171 as well as some conventional shell variables interpreted by the
172 @file{scripttempl} and @file{emultempl} scripts.
173
174 @table @code
175 @item SCRIPT_NAME
176 This is the name of the @file{scripttempl} script to use. If
177 @code{SCRIPT_NAME} is set to @var{script}, @file{genscripts.sh} will use
178 the script @file{scriptteml/@var{script}.sc}.
179
180 @item TEMPLATE_NAME
181 This is the name of the @file{emultemlp} script to use. If
182 @code{TEMPLATE_NAME} is set to @var{template}, @file{genscripts.sh} will
183 use the script @file{emultempl/@var{template}.em}. If this variable is
184 not set, the default value is @samp{generic}.
185
186 @item GENERATE_SHLIB_SCRIPT
187 If this is set to a nonempty string, @file{genscripts.sh} will invoke
188 the @file{scripttempl} script an extra time to create a shared library
189 script. @ref{linker scripts}.
190
191 @item OUTPUT_FORMAT
192 This is normally set to indicate the BFD output format use (e.g.,
193 @samp{"a.out-sunos-big"}. The @file{scripttempl} script will normally
194 use it in an @code{OUTPUT_FORMAT} expression in the linker script.
195
196 @item ARCH
197 This is normally set to indicate the architecture to use (e.g.,
198 @samp{sparc}). The @file{scripttempl} script will normally use it in an
199 @code{OUTPUT_ARCH} expression in the linker script.
200
201 @item ENTRY
202 Some @file{scripttempl} scripts use this to set the entry address, in an
203 @code{ENTRY} expression in the linker script.
204
205 @item TEXT_START_ADDR
206 Some @file{scripttempl} scripts use this to set the start address of the
207 @samp{.text} section.
208
209 @item NONPAGED_TEXT_START_ADDR
210 If this is defined, the @file{genscripts.sh} script sets
211 @code{TEXT_START_ADDR} to its value before running the
212 @file{scripttempl} script for the @code{-n} and @code{-N} options
213 (@pxref{linker scripts}).
214
215 @item SEGMENT_SIZE
216 The @file{genscripts.sh} script uses this to set the default value of
217 @code{DATA_ALIGNMENT} when running the @file{scripttempl} script.
218
219 @item TARGET_PAGE_SIZE
220 If @code{SEGMENT_SIZE} is not defined, the @file{genscripts.sh} script
221 uses this to define it.
222
223 @item ALIGNMENT
224 Some @file{scripttempl} scripts set this to a number to pass to
225 @code{ALIGN} to set the required alignment for the @code{end} symbol.
226 @end table
227
228 @node linker scripts
229 @section @file{scripttempl} scripts
230
231 Each linker target uses a @file{scripttempl} script to generate the
232 default linker scripts. The name of the @file{scripttempl} script is
233 set by the @code{SCRIPT_NAME} variable in the @file{emulparams} script.
234 If @code{SCRIPT_NAME} is set to @var{script}, @code{genscripts.sh} will
235 invoke @file{scripttempl/@var{script}.sc}.
236
237 The @file{genscripts.sh} script will invoke the @file{scripttempl}
238 script 5 or 6 times. Each time it will set the shell variable
239 @code{LD_FLAG} to a different value. When the linker is run, the
240 options used will direct it to select a particular script. (Script
241 selection is controlled by the @code{get_script} emulation entry point;
242 this describes the conventional behaviour).
243
244 The @file{scripttempl} script should just write a linker script, written
245 in the linker command language, to standard output. If the emulation
246 name--the name of the @file{emulparams} file without the @file{.sc}
247 extension--is @var{emul}, then the output will be directed to
248 @file{ldscripts/@var{emul}.@var{extension}} in the build directory,
249 where @var{extension} changes each time the @file{scripttempl} script is
250 invoked.
251
252 Here is the list of values assigned to @code{LD_FLAG}.
253
254 @table @code
255 @item (empty)
256 The script generated is used by default (when none of the following
257 cases apply). The output has an extension of @file{.x}.
258 @item n
259 The script generated is used when the linker is invoked with the
260 @code{-n} option. The output has an extension of @file{.xn}.
261 @item N
262 The script generated is used when the linker is invoked with the
263 @code{-N} option. The output has an extension of @file{.xbn}.
264 @item r
265 The script generated is used when the linker is invoked with the
266 @code{-r} option. The output has an extension of @file{.xr}.
267 @item u
268 The script generated is used when the linker is invoked with the
269 @code{-Ur} option. The output has an extension of @file{.xu}.
270 @item shared
271 The @file{scripttempl} script is only invoked with @code{LD_FLAG} set to
272 this value if @code{GENERATE_SHLIB_SCRIPT} is defined in the
273 @file{emulparams} file. The @file{emultempl} script must arrange to use
274 this script at the appropriate time, normally when the linker is invoked
275 with the @code{-shared} option. The output has an extension of
276 @file{.xs}.
277 @end table
278
279 Besides the shell variables set by the @file{emulparams} script, and the
280 @code{LD_FLAG} variable, the @file{genscripts.sh} script will set
281 certain variables for each run of the @file{scripttempl} script.
282
283 @table @code
284 @item RELOCATING
285 This will be set to a non-empty string when the linker is doing a final
286 relocation (e.g., all scripts other than @code{-r} and @code{-Ur}).
287
288 @item CONSTRUCTING
289 This will be set to a non-empty string when the linker is building
290 global constructor and destructor tables (e.g., all scripts other than
291 @code{-r}).
292
293 @item DATA_ALIGNMENT
294 This will be set to an @code{ALIGN} expression when the output should be
295 page aligned, or to @samp{.} when generating the @code{-N} script.
296
297 @item CREATE_SHLIB
298 This will be set to a non-empty string when generating a @code{-shared}
299 script.
300 @end table
301
302 The conventional way to write a @file{scripttempl} script is to first
303 set a few shell variables, and then write out a linker script using
304 @code{cat} with a here document. The linker script will use variable
305 substitutions, based on the above variables and those set in the
306 @file{emulparams} script, to control its behaviour.
307
308 When there are parts of the @file{scripttempl} script which should only
309 be run when doing a final relocation, they should be enclosed within a
310 variable substitution based on @code{RELOCATING}. For example, on many
311 targets special symbols such as @code{_end} should be defined when doing
312 a final link. Naturally, those symbols should not be defined when doing
313 a relocateable link using @code{-r}. The @file{scripttempl} script
314 could use a construct like this to define those symbols:
315 @smallexample
316 $@{RELOCATING+ _end = .;@}
317 @end smallexample
318 This will do the symbol assignment only if the @code{RELOCATING}
319 variable is defined.
320
321 The basic job of the linker script is to put the sections in the correct
322 order, and at the correct memory addresses. For some targets, the
323 linker script may have to do some other operations.
324
325 For example, on most MIPS platforms, the linker is responsible for
326 defining the special symbol @code{_gp}, used to initialize the
327 @code{$gp} register. It must be set to the start of the small data
328 section plus @code{0x8000}. Naturally, it should only be defined when
329 doing a final relocation. This will typically be done like this:
330 @smallexample
331 $@{RELOCATING+ _gp = ALIGN(16) + 0x8000;@}
332 @end smallexample
333 This line would appear just before the sections which compose the small
334 data section (@samp{.sdata}, @samp{.sbss}). All those sections would be
335 contiguous in memory.
336
337 Many COFF systems build constructor tables in the linker script. The
338 compiler will arrange to output the address of each global constructor
339 in a @samp{.ctor} section, and the address of each global destructor in
340 a @samp{.dtor} section (this is done by defining
341 @code{ASM_OUTPUT_CONSTRUCTOR} and @code{ASM_OUTPUT_DESTRUCTOR} in the
342 @code{gcc} configuration files). The @code{gcc} runtime support
343 routines expect the constructor table to be named @code{__CTOR_LIST__}.
344 They expect it to be a list of words, with the first word being the
345 count of the number of entries. There should be a trailing zero word.
346 (Actually, the count may be -1 if the trailing word is present, and the
347 trailing word may be omitted if the count is correct, but, as the
348 @code{gcc} behaviour has changed slightly over the years, it is safest
349 to provide both). Here is a typical way that might be handled in a
350 @file{scripttempl} file.
351 @smallexample
352 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ __CTOR_LIST__ = .;@}
353 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ LONG((__CTOR_END__ - __CTOR_LIST__) / 4 - 2)@}
354 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ *(.ctors)@}
355 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ LONG(0)@}
356 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ __CTOR_END__ = .;@}
357 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ __DTOR_LIST__ = .;@}
358 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ LONG((__DTOR_END__ - __DTOR_LIST__) / 4 - 2)@}
359 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ *(.dtors)@}
360 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ LONG(0)@}
361 $@{CONSTRUCTING+ __DTOR_END__ = .;@}
362 @end smallexample
363 The use of @code{CONSTRUCTING} ensures that these linker script commands
364 will only appear when the linker is supposed to be building the
365 constructor and destructor tables. This example is written for a target
366 which uses 4 byte pointers.
367
368 Embedded systems often need to set a stack address. This is normally
369 best done by using the @code{PROVIDE} construct with a default stack
370 address. This permits the user to easily override the stack address
371 using the @code{--defsym} option. Here is an example:
372 @smallexample
373 $@{RELOCATING+ PROVIDE (__stack = 0x80000000);@}
374 @end smallexample
375 The value of the symbol @code{__stack} would then be used in the startup
376 code to initialize the stack pointer.
377
378 @node linker emulations
379 @section @file{emultempl} scripts
380
381 Each linker target uses an @file{emultempl} script to generate the
382 emulation code. The name of the @file{emultempl} script is set by the
383 @code{TEMPLATE_NAME} variable in the @file{emulparams} script. If the
384 @code{TEMPLATE_NAME} variable is not set, the default is
385 @samp{generic}. If the value of @code{TEMPLATE_NAME} is @var{template},
386 @file{genscripts.sh} will use @file{emultempl/@var{template}.em}.
387
388 Most targets use the generic @file{emultempl} script,
389 @file{emultempl/generic.em}. A different @file{emultempl} script is
390 only needed if the linker must support unusual actions, such as linking
391 against shared libraries.
392
393 The @file{emultempl} script is normally written as a simple invocation
394 of @code{cat} with a here document. The document will use a few
395 variable substitutions. Typically each function names uses a
396 substitution involving @code{EMULATION_NAME}, for ease of debugging when
397 the linker supports multiple emulations.
398
399 Every function and variable in the emitted file should be static. The
400 only globally visible object must be named
401 @code{ld_@var{EMULATION_NAME}_emulation}, where @var{EMULATION_NAME} is
402 the name of the emulation set in @file{configure.tgt} (this is also the
403 name of the @file{emulparams} file without the @file{.sh} extension).
404 The @file{genscripts.sh} script will set the shell variable
405 @code{EMULATION_NAME} before invoking the @file{emultempl} script.
406
407 The @code{ld_@var{EMULATION_NAME}_emulation} variable must be a
408 @code{struct ld_emulation_xfer_struct}, as defined in @file{ldemul.h}.
409 It defines a set of function pointers which are invoked by the linker,
410 as well as strings for the emulation name (normally set from the shell
411 variable @code{EMULATION_NAME} and the default BFD target name (normally
412 set from the shell variable @code{OUTPUT_FORMAT} which is normally set
413 by the @file{emulparams} file).
414
415 The @file{genscripts.sh} script will set the shell variable
416 @code{COMPILE_IN} when it invokes the @file{emultempl} script for the
417 default emulation. In this case, the @file{emultempl} script should
418 include the linker scripts directly, and return them from the
419 @code{get_scripts} entry point. When the emulation is not the default,
420 the @code{get_scripts} entry point should just return a file name. See
421 @file{emultempl/generic.em} for an example of how this is done.
422
423 At some point, the linker emulation entry points should be documented.
424
425 @node Emulation Walkthrough
426 @chapter A Walkthrough of a Typical Emulation
427
428 This chapter is to help people who are new to the way emulations
429 interact with the linker, or who are suddenly thrust into the position
430 of having to work with existing emulations. It will discuss the files
431 you need to be aware of. It will tell you when the given "hooks" in
432 the emulation will be called. It will, hopefully, give you enough
433 information about when and how things happen that you'll be able to
434 get by. As always, the source is the definitive reference to this.
435
436 The starting point for the linker is in @file{ldmain.c} where
437 @code{main} is defined. The bulk of the code that's emulation
438 specific will initially be in @code{emultempl/@var{emulation}.em} but
439 will end up in @code{e@var{emulation}.c} when the build is done.
440 Most of the work to select and interface with emulations is in
441 @code{ldemul.h} and @code{ldemul.c}. Specifically, @code{ldemul.h}
442 defines the @code{ld_emulation_xfer_struct} structure your emulation
443 exports.
444
445 Your emulation file exports a symbol
446 @code{ld_@var{EMULATION_NAME}_emulation}. If your emulation is
447 selected (it usually is, since usually there's only one),
448 @code{ldemul.c} sets the variable @var{ld_emulation} to point to it.
449 @code{ldemul.c} also defines a number of API functions that interface
450 to your emulation, like @code{ldemul_after_parse} which simply calls
451 your @code{ld_@var{EMULATION}_emulation.after_parse} function. For
452 the rest of this section, the functions will be mentioned, but you
453 should assume the indirect reference to your emulation also.
454
455 We will also skip or gloss over parts of the link process that don't
456 relate to emulations, like setting up internationalization.
457
458 After initialization, @code{main} selects an emulation by pre-scanning
459 the command line arguments. It calls @code{ldemul_choose_target} to
460 choose a target. If you set @code{choose_target} to
461 @code{ldemul_default_target}, it picks your @code{target_name} by
462 default.
463
464 @code{main} calls @code{ldemul_before_parse}, then @code{parse_args}.
465 @code{parse_args} calls @code{ldemul_parse_args} for each arg, which
466 must update the @code{getopt} globals if it recognizes the argument.
467 If the emulation doesn't recognize it, then parse_args checks to see
468 if it recognizes it.
469
470 Now that the emulation has had access to all its command-line options,
471 @code{main} calls @code{ldemul_set_symbols}. This can be used for any
472 initialization that may be affected by options. It is also supposed
473 to set up any variables needed by the emulation script.
474
475 @code{main} now calls @code{ldemul_get_script} to get the emulation
476 script to use (based on arguments, no doubt, @pxref{Emulations}) and
477 runs it. While parsing, @code{ldgram.y} may call @code{ldemul_hll} or
478 @code{ldemul_syslib} to handle the @code{HLL} or @code{SYSLIB}
479 commands. It may call @code{ldemul_unrecognized_file} if you asked
480 the linker to link a file it doesn't recognize. It will call
481 @code{ldemul_recognized_file} for each file it does recognize, in case
482 the emulation wants to handle some files specially. All the while,
483 it's loading the files (possibly calling
484 @code{ldemul_open_dynamic_archive}) and symbols and stuff. After it's
485 done reading the script, @code{main} calls @code{ldemul_after_parse}.
486 Use the after-parse hook to set up anything that depends on stuff the
487 script might have set up, like the entry point.
488
489 @code{main} next calls @code{lang_process} in @code{ldlang.c}. This
490 appears to be the main core of the linking itself, as far as emulation
491 hooks are concerned(*). It first opens the output file's BFD, calling
492 @code{ldemul_set_output_arch}, and calls
493 @code{ldemul_create_output_section_statements} in case you need to use
494 other means to find or create object files (i.e. shared libraries
495 found on a path, or fake stub objects). Despite the name, nobody
496 creates output sections here.
497
498 (*) In most cases, the BFD library does the bulk of the actual
499 linking, handling symbol tables, symbol resolution, relocations, and
500 building the final output file. See the BFD reference for all the
501 details. Your emulation is usually concerned more with managing
502 things at the file and section level, like "put this here, add this
503 section", etc.
504
505 Next, the objects to be linked are opened and BFDs created for them,
506 and @code{ldemul_after_open} is called. At this point, you have all
507 the objects and symbols loaded, but none of the data has been placed
508 yet.
509
510 Next comes the Big Linking Thingy (except for the parts BFD does).
511 All input sections are mapped to output sections according to the
512 script. If a section doesn't get mapped by default,
513 @code{ldemul_place_orphan} will get called to figure out where it goes.
514 Next it figures out the offsets for each section, calling
515 @code{ldemul_before_allocation} before and
516 @code{ldemul_after_allocation} after deciding where each input section
517 ends up in the output sections.
518
519 The last part of @code{lang_process} is to figure out all the symbols'
520 values. After assigning final values to the symbols,
521 @code{ldemul_finish} is called, and after that, any undefined symbols
522 are turned into fatal errors.
523
524 OK, back to @code{main}, which calls @code{ldwrite} in
525 @file{ldwrite.c}. @code{ldwrite} calls BFD's final_link, which does
526 all the relocation fixups and writes the output bfd to disk, and we're
527 done.
528
529 In summary,
530
531 @itemize @bullet
532
533 @item @code{main()} in @file{ldmain.c}
534 @item @file{emultempl/@var{EMULATION}.em} has your code
535 @item @code{ldemul_choose_target} (defaults to your @code{target_name})
536 @item @code{ldemul_before_parse}
537 @item Parse argv, calls @code{ldemul_parse_args} for each
538 @item @code{ldemul_set_symbols}
539 @item @code{ldemul_get_script}
540 @item parse script
541
542 @itemize @bullet
543 @item may call @code{ldemul_hll} or @code{ldemul_syslib}
544 @item may call @code{ldemul_open_dynamic_archive}
545 @end itemize
546
547 @item @code{ldemul_after_parse}
548 @item @code{lang_process()} in @file{ldlang.c}
549
550 @itemize @bullet
551 @item create @code{output_bfd}
552 @item @code{ldemul_set_output_arch}
553 @item @code{ldemul_create_output_section_statements}
554 @item read objects, create input bfds - all symbols exist, but have no values
555 @item may call @code{ldemul_unrecognized_file}
556 @item will call @code{ldemul_recognized_file}
557 @item @code{ldemul_after_open}
558 @item map input sections to output sections
559 @item may call @code{ldemul_place_orphan} for remaining sections
560 @item @code{ldemul_before_allocation}
561 @item gives input sections offsets into output sections, places output sections
562 @item @code{ldemul_after_allocation} - section addresses valid
563 @item assigns values to symbols
564 @item @code{ldemul_finish} - symbol values valid
565 @end itemize
566
567 @item output bfd is written to disk
568
569 @end itemize
570
571 @node GNU Free Documentation License
572 @chapter GNU Free Documentation License
573
574 GNU Free Documentation License
575
576 Version 1.1, March 2000
577
578 Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
579 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
580
581 Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
582 of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
583
584
585 0. PREAMBLE
586
587 The purpose of this License is to make a manual, textbook, or other
588 written document "free" in the sense of freedom: to assure everyone
589 the effective freedom to copy and redistribute it, with or without
590 modifying it, either commercially or noncommercially. Secondarily,
591 this License preserves for the author and publisher a way to get
592 credit for their work, while not being considered responsible for
593 modifications made by others.
594
595 This License is a kind of "copyleft", which means that derivative
596 works of the document must themselves be free in the same sense. It
597 complements the GNU General Public License, which is a copyleft
598 license designed for free software.
599
600 We have designed this License in order to use it for manuals for free
601 software, because free software needs free documentation: a free
602 program should come with manuals providing the same freedoms that the
603 software does. But this License is not limited to software manuals;
604 it can be used for any textual work, regardless of subject matter or
605 whether it is published as a printed book. We recommend this License
606 principally for works whose purpose is instruction or reference.
607
608
609 1. APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
610
611 This License applies to any manual or other work that contains a
612 notice placed by the copyright holder saying it can be distributed
613 under the terms of this License. The "Document", below, refers to any
614 such manual or work. Any member of the public is a licensee, and is
615 addressed as "you".
616
617 A "Modified Version" of the Document means any work containing the
618 Document or a portion of it, either copied verbatim, or with
619 modifications and/or translated into another language.
620
621 A "Secondary Section" is a named appendix or a front-matter section of
622 the Document that deals exclusively with the relationship of the
623 publishers or authors of the Document to the Document's overall subject
624 (or to related matters) and contains nothing that could fall directly
625 within that overall subject. (For example, if the Document is in part a
626 textbook of mathematics, a Secondary Section may not explain any
627 mathematics.) The relationship could be a matter of historical
628 connection with the subject or with related matters, or of legal,
629 commercial, philosophical, ethical or political position regarding
630 them.
631
632 The "Invariant Sections" are certain Secondary Sections whose titles
633 are designated, as being those of Invariant Sections, in the notice
634 that says that the Document is released under this License.
635
636 The "Cover Texts" are certain short passages of text that are listed,
637 as Front-Cover Texts or Back-Cover Texts, in the notice that says that
638 the Document is released under this License.
639
640 A "Transparent" copy of the Document means a machine-readable copy,
641 represented in a format whose specification is available to the
642 general public, whose contents can be viewed and edited directly and
643 straightforwardly with generic text editors or (for images composed of
644 pixels) generic paint programs or (for drawings) some widely available
645 drawing editor, and that is suitable for input to text formatters or
646 for automatic translation to a variety of formats suitable for input
647 to text formatters. A copy made in an otherwise Transparent file
648 format whose markup has been designed to thwart or discourage
649 subsequent modification by readers is not Transparent. A copy that is
650 not "Transparent" is called "Opaque".
651
652 Examples of suitable formats for Transparent copies include plain
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654 or XML using a publicly available DTD, and standard-conforming simple
655 HTML designed for human modification. Opaque formats include
656 PostScript, PDF, proprietary formats that can be read and edited only
657 by proprietary word processors, SGML or XML for which the DTD and/or
658 processing tools are not generally available, and the
659 machine-generated HTML produced by some word processors for output
660 purposes only.
661
662 The "Title Page" means, for a printed book, the title page itself,
663 plus such following pages as are needed to hold, legibly, the material
664 this License requires to appear in the title page. For works in
665 formats which do not have any title page as such, "Title Page" means
666 the text near the most prominent appearance of the work's title,
667 preceding the beginning of the body of the text.
668
669
670 2. VERBATIM COPYING
671
672 You may copy and distribute the Document in any medium, either
673 commercially or noncommercially, provided that this License, the
674 copyright notices, and the license notice saying this License applies
675 to the Document are reproduced in all copies, and that you add no other
676 conditions whatsoever to those of this License. You may not use
677 technical measures to obstruct or control the reading or further
678 copying of the copies you make or distribute. However, you may accept
679 compensation in exchange for copies. If you distribute a large enough
680 number of copies you must also follow the conditions in section 3.
681
682 You may also lend copies, under the same conditions stated above, and
683 you may publicly display copies.
684
685
686 3. COPYING IN QUANTITY
687
688 If you publish printed copies of the Document numbering more than 100,
689 and the Document's license notice requires Cover Texts, you must enclose
690 the copies in covers that carry, clearly and legibly, all these Cover
691 Texts: Front-Cover Texts on the front cover, and Back-Cover Texts on
692 the back cover. Both covers must also clearly and legibly identify
693 you as the publisher of these copies. The front cover must present
694 the full title with all words of the title equally prominent and
695 visible. You may add other material on the covers in addition.
696 Copying with changes limited to the covers, as long as they preserve
697 the title of the Document and satisfy these conditions, can be treated
698 as verbatim copying in other respects.
699
700 If the required texts for either cover are too voluminous to fit
701 legibly, you should put the first ones listed (as many as fit
702 reasonably) on the actual cover, and continue the rest onto adjacent
703 pages.
704
705 If you publish or distribute Opaque copies of the Document numbering
706 more than 100, you must either include a machine-readable Transparent
707 copy along with each Opaque copy, or state in or with each Opaque copy
708 a publicly-accessible computer-network location containing a complete
709 Transparent copy of the Document, free of added material, which the
710 general network-using public has access to download anonymously at no
711 charge using public-standard network protocols. If you use the latter
712 option, you must take reasonably prudent steps, when you begin
713 distribution of Opaque copies in quantity, to ensure that this
714 Transparent copy will remain thus accessible at the stated location
715 until at least one year after the last time you distribute an Opaque
716 copy (directly or through your agents or retailers) of that edition to
717 the public.
718
719 It is requested, but not required, that you contact the authors of the
720 Document well before redistributing any large number of copies, to give
721 them a chance to provide you with an updated version of the Document.
722
723
724 4. MODIFICATIONS
725
726 You may copy and distribute a Modified Version of the Document under
727 the conditions of sections 2 and 3 above, provided that you release
728 the Modified Version under precisely this License, with the Modified
729 Version filling the role of the Document, thus licensing distribution
730 and modification of the Modified Version to whoever possesses a copy
731 of it. In addition, you must do these things in the Modified Version:
732
733 A. Use in the Title Page (and on the covers, if any) a title distinct
734 from that of the Document, and from those of previous versions
735 (which should, if there were any, be listed in the History section
736 of the Document). You may use the same title as a previous version
737 if the original publisher of that version gives permission.
738 B. List on the Title Page, as authors, one or more persons or entities
739 responsible for authorship of the modifications in the Modified
740 Version, together with at least five of the principal authors of the
741 Document (all of its principal authors, if it has less than five).
742 C. State on the Title page the name of the publisher of the
743 Modified Version, as the publisher.
744 D. Preserve all the copyright notices of the Document.
745 E. Add an appropriate copyright notice for your modifications
746 adjacent to the other copyright notices.
747 F. Include, immediately after the copyright notices, a license notice
748 giving the public permission to use the Modified Version under the
749 terms of this License, in the form shown in the Addendum below.
750 G. Preserve in that license notice the full lists of Invariant Sections
751 and required Cover Texts given in the Document's license notice.
752 H. Include an unaltered copy of this License.
753 I. Preserve the section entitled "History", and its title, and add to
754 it an item stating at least the title, year, new authors, and
755 publisher of the Modified Version as given on the Title Page. If
756 there is no section entitled "History" in the Document, create one
757 stating the title, year, authors, and publisher of the Document as
758 given on its Title Page, then add an item describing the Modified
759 Version as stated in the previous sentence.
760 J. Preserve the network location, if any, given in the Document for
761 public access to a Transparent copy of the Document, and likewise
762 the network locations given in the Document for previous versions
763 it was based on. These may be placed in the "History" section.
764 You may omit a network location for a work that was published at
765 least four years before the Document itself, or if the original
766 publisher of the version it refers to gives permission.
767 K. In any section entitled "Acknowledgements" or "Dedications",
768 preserve the section's title, and preserve in the section all the
769 substance and tone of each of the contributor acknowledgements
770 and/or dedications given therein.
771 L. Preserve all the Invariant Sections of the Document,
772 unaltered in their text and in their titles. Section numbers
773 or the equivalent are not considered part of the section titles.
774 M. Delete any section entitled "Endorsements". Such a section
775 may not be included in the Modified Version.
776 N. Do not retitle any existing section as "Endorsements"
777 or to conflict in title with any Invariant Section.
778
779 If the Modified Version includes new front-matter sections or
780 appendices that qualify as Secondary Sections and contain no material
781 copied from the Document, you may at your option designate some or all
782 of these sections as invariant. To do this, add their titles to the
783 list of Invariant Sections in the Modified Version's license notice.
784 These titles must be distinct from any other section titles.
785
786 You may add a section entitled "Endorsements", provided it contains
787 nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
788 parties--for example, statements of peer review or that the text has
789 been approved by an organization as the authoritative definition of a
790 standard.
791
792 You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text, and a
793 passage of up to 25 words as a Back-Cover Text, to the end of the list
794 of Cover Texts in the Modified Version. Only one passage of
795 Front-Cover Text and one of Back-Cover Text may be added by (or
796 through arrangements made by) any one entity. If the Document already
797 includes a cover text for the same cover, previously added by you or
798 by arrangement made by the same entity you are acting on behalf of,
799 you may not add another; but you may replace the old one, on explicit
800 permission from the previous publisher that added the old one.
801
802 The author(s) and publisher(s) of the Document do not by this License
803 give permission to use their names for publicity for or to assert or
804 imply endorsement of any Modified Version.
805
806
807 5. COMBINING DOCUMENTS
808
809 You may combine the Document with other documents released under this
810 License, under the terms defined in section 4 above for modified
811 versions, provided that you include in the combination all of the
812 Invariant Sections of all of the original documents, unmodified, and
813 list them all as Invariant Sections of your combined work in its
814 license notice.
815
816 The combined work need only contain one copy of this License, and
817 multiple identical Invariant Sections may be replaced with a single
818 copy. If there are multiple Invariant Sections with the same name but
819 different contents, make the title of each such section unique by
820 adding at the end of it, in parentheses, the name of the original
821 author or publisher of that section if known, or else a unique number.
822 Make the same adjustment to the section titles in the list of
823 Invariant Sections in the license notice of the combined work.
824
825 In the combination, you must combine any sections entitled "History"
826 in the various original documents, forming one section entitled
827 "History"; likewise combine any sections entitled "Acknowledgements",
828 and any sections entitled "Dedications". You must delete all sections
829 entitled "Endorsements."
830
831
832 6. COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
833
834 You may make a collection consisting of the Document and other documents
835 released under this License, and replace the individual copies of this
836 License in the various documents with a single copy that is included in
837 the collection, provided that you follow the rules of this License for
838 verbatim copying of each of the documents in all other respects.
839
840 You may extract a single document from such a collection, and distribute
841 it individually under this License, provided you insert a copy of this
842 License into the extracted document, and follow this License in all
843 other respects regarding verbatim copying of that document.
844
845
846 7. AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
847
848 A compilation of the Document or its derivatives with other separate
849 and independent documents or works, in or on a volume of a storage or
850 distribution medium, does not as a whole count as a Modified Version
851 of the Document, provided no compilation copyright is claimed for the
852 compilation. Such a compilation is called an "aggregate", and this
853 License does not apply to the other self-contained works thus compiled
854 with the Document, on account of their being thus compiled, if they
855 are not themselves derivative works of the Document.
856
857 If the Cover Text requirement of section 3 is applicable to these
858 copies of the Document, then if the Document is less than one quarter
859 of the entire aggregate, the Document's Cover Texts may be placed on
860 covers that surround only the Document within the aggregate.
861 Otherwise they must appear on covers around the whole aggregate.
862
863
864 8. TRANSLATION
865
866 Translation is considered a kind of modification, so you may
867 distribute translations of the Document under the terms of section 4.
868 Replacing Invariant Sections with translations requires special
869 permission from their copyright holders, but you may include
870 translations of some or all Invariant Sections in addition to the
871 original versions of these Invariant Sections. You may include a
872 translation of this License provided that you also include the
873 original English version of this License. In case of a disagreement
874 between the translation and the original English version of this
875 License, the original English version will prevail.
876
877
878 9. TERMINATION
879
880 You may not copy, modify, sublicense, or distribute the Document except
881 as expressly provided for under this License. Any other attempt to
882 copy, modify, sublicense or distribute the Document is void, and will
883 automatically terminate your rights under this License. However,
884 parties who have received copies, or rights, from you under this
885 License will not have their licenses terminated so long as such
886 parties remain in full compliance.
887
888
889 10. FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
890
891 The Free Software Foundation may publish new, revised versions
892 of the GNU Free Documentation License from time to time. Such new
893 versions will be similar in spirit to the present version, but may
894 differ in detail to address new problems or concerns. See
895 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/.
896
897 Each version of the License is given a distinguishing version number.
898 If the Document specifies that a particular numbered version of this
899 License "or any later version" applies to it, you have the option of
900 following the terms and conditions either of that specified version or
901 of any later version that has been published (not as a draft) by the
902 Free Software Foundation. If the Document does not specify a version
903 number of this License, you may choose any version ever published (not
904 as a draft) by the Free Software Foundation.
905
906
907 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents
908
909 To use this License in a document you have written, include a copy of
910 the License in the document and put the following copyright and
911 license notices just after the title page:
912
913 @smallexample
914 Copyright (c) YEAR YOUR NAME.
915 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
916 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
917 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
918 with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the
919 Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts being LIST.
920 A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU
921 Free Documentation License".
922 @end smallexample
923
924 If you have no Invariant Sections, write "with no Invariant Sections"
925 instead of saying which ones are invariant. If you have no
926 Front-Cover Texts, write "no Front-Cover Texts" instead of
927 "Front-Cover Texts being LIST"; likewise for Back-Cover Texts.
928
929 If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we
930 recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of
931 free software license, such as the GNU General Public License,
932 to permit their use in free software.
933
934 @contents
935 @bye
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