Confusion about object code generated?
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When we compile a C/C++ program we get the object code. Now my doubt is : When the object code is executed after transferring into the main memory what is it : 1. Is it a PROGRAM or 2. IS it a process.... I got really confused today in my vivas today cause of my examiner....
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When we compile a C/C++ program we get the object code. Now my doubt is : When the object code is executed after transferring into the main memory what is it : 1. Is it a PROGRAM or 2. IS it a process.... I got really confused today in my vivas today cause of my examiner....
A program in execution is called "Process". A program is what you call as .exe. That would also call as an application. So Program, process, Application all would mean same.
lionelcyril wrote:
When the object code is executed after transferring into the main memory what is it :
Also, You don't execute an object code. Your object code gets through linker to make it executable code. .exe
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When we compile a C/C++ program we get the object code. Now my doubt is : When the object code is executed after transferring into the main memory what is it : 1. Is it a PROGRAM or 2. IS it a process.... I got really confused today in my vivas today cause of my examiner....
Another thing to add is that object code cannot be executed. It has to be linked by a linker into an executable before it can be executed.
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Another thing to add is that object code cannot be executed. It has to be linked by a linker into an executable before it can be executed.
«_Superman_» I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends.
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When we compile a C/C++ program we get the object code. Now my doubt is : When the object code is executed after transferring into the main memory what is it : 1. Is it a PROGRAM or 2. IS it a process.... I got really confused today in my vivas today cause of my examiner....
When you compile
C/C++sources, usually you obtain an executable (or an application): the object code (usually again) is just an intermediate result.lionelcyril wrote:
When the object code is executed after transferring into the main memory what is it : 1. Is it a PROGRAM or 2. IS it a process....
Is is a
process, i.e. a running executable (or running application). 'Program', on the other hand, has a very broad sense, usually the context qualify better its meaning. :)If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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