Linker (computing): Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
Overview: layman-language paragraph on why software is developed in separate units which are then linked together
Tags: Reverted Visual edit
m extra blank line
Line 27:
 
On some [[Unix]] variants, such as [[SINTRAN&nbsp;III]], the process performed by a linker (assembling object files into a program) was called ''[[loader (computing)|loading]]'' (as in loading executable code onto a file).<ref name="BRF_1984"/> Additionally, in some operating systems, the same program handles both the jobs of linking and loading a program ([[dynamic linking]]).
 
 
== Dynamic linking ==