I wanted to know in depth meaning and working of compiler, linker and loader. With reference to any language preferably c++.
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- Compiler: A language translator that converts a complete program into machine language to produce a program that the computer can process in its entirety.
- Linker: Utility program which takes one or more compiled object files and combines them into an executable file or another object file.
- Loader: loads the executable code into memory ,creates the program and data stack , initializes the registers and starts the code running.
Compiler It converts the source code into the object code.
Linker It combines the multiple object files into a single executable program file.
Loader It loads the executable file into main memory.
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