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I’m learning more about compilers. While trying to understand this Wikipedia article on LLVM I ran across the term “linking”. I’ve seen this term before but don’t truly understand it. In the context of compilers what does linking mean?
Linking is the process of connecting all the compiled objects to each other to form the final executable. When you call a function in one piece of code, it’s the job of the linker to hook the code that calls the function to the code that implements the function.