Linkers and LTO

Linkers and LTO is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by mohitmishra786 in low-level-dev-skills.

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Install Linkers and LTO

Copy Linkers and LTO into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills/tree/main/skills/binaries/linkers-lto ~/.claude/skills/linkers-lto

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/binaries/linkers-lto/SKILL.md in mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/linkers-lto
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 973 skills

What Linkers and LTO does

Linkers and LTO helps configure GNU ld, gold, or lld, diagnose link-order and undefined-symbol errors, and enable LTO safely in real builds. Use it when tuning linker flags, dead-code stripping, or symbol visibility.

Linkers and LTO is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Linkers and LTO comes from a repository tagged ai-agent-skills, build-systems, c-cpp-toolchain, compilers and cross-compilation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Linkers and LTO

Purpose

Guide agents through linker selection, common linker flags, link-order issues, LTO setup, and symbol-visibility management.

Triggers

"I'm getting undefined reference at link time"
"How do I enable LTO for a real project?"
"Which linker should I use: ld, gold, or lld?"
"How do I reduce binary size with --gc-sections?"
"How do I write or understand a linker script?"
"I have duplicate symbol or weak symbol issues"

Workflow

1. Linker selection

Linker	Invocation	Strengths
GNU ld (BFD)	default on Linux	Universal, stable
gold	`-fuse-ld=gold`	Faster than ld for C++; supports LTO plugins
lld (LLVM)	`-fuse-ld=lld`	Fastest, parallel, required for Clang LTO

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Linkers and LTO

What else does mohitmishra786 publish alongside Linkers and LTO?
Linkers and LTO is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ADC And DAC Bare Metal, AF XDP and Bare-Metal Startup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Linkers and LTO does, and is maintained by mohitmishra786 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the mohitmishra786/low-level-dev-skills page.
How does Linkers and LTO compare to other DevOps skills?
Linkers and LTO ranks #897 by stars among the 973 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Linkers and LTO against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.