TODOs
Striking gold in binutils
A ToC of the 20 part linker essay
https://lwn.net/Articles/276782/
There are other resources for linkers and loaders, see
Executables linking and loading reading
http://research.tedneward.com/reading/software/linking-loading/index.html
Optimizing real-world applications with GCC Link Time Optimization
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6adf/872e3533f40a607f39cdeaf264585efde9af.pdf
by Honza Hubicka, whose scholar page is https://scholar.google.cz/citations?user=vhXJ0JEAAAAJ&hl=en