vani

• Jan 14th, 2006

 

loading refers to storing large amt of data into the system.linking means one program or page is related to another page or program

abhishek

• Jan 2nd, 2007

 

Load -> Puts the CSECT(smallest executable unit) into main memory.

Linking is a different cup of tea, this is done to make a module executable.

The only way you can draw a relation between is when a dynamic call made then the module is first loaded into the memory then the link-edited module is executed.

harsha419

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• Jul 7th, 2009

 

A linker takes several object files and libraries as input and produces one executable object file (or) Linking is simply the process of placing the address of a called function into the calling function's code. This is a fundamental software concept.

A loader loads an executable object file into memory, initializes the registers, heap, data, etc and starts the execution of the program.