[TUHS] What does `ld` stand for?

[John Levine via TUHS]

It appears that Lars Brinkhoff via TUHS <lars at nocrew.org> said:
>Warner Losh wrote:
>> Ld to this day has a -r flag that takes the input .o and outputs a new .o
>> without the relocations applied.
>
>Sure, but is that called "recursion"?  If yes, ok I'll accept that.

I'd call that iterative loading.  

While I could sort of imagine a dynamic loader like the one used for
ELF shared libraries being called recursively, it doesn't seem like a
very good idea. If it needs to chase down a chain of dependencies,
build the chain, then do the loading, don't recurse.

R's,
John