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global offset table

A table of addresses in a program's data that the dynamic linker fills in, so position-independent code can find things in other libraries.

The global offset table (GOT) is a writable array of pointers, one per external symbol a module references; code loads a symbol's address from its GOT entry PC-relatively, and the dynamic linker writes the entries at load time (or lazily, for function entries).

Examples

  • mov rax, [rip + counter@GOTPCREL] loads counter's address from its GOT entry.

See also

position-independent code dynamic linker procedure linkage table lazy binding
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