Linker

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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  linker
       
           (linkage editor, link loader) A program
          that combines one or more files containing {object code} from
          separately compiled program {modules} into a single file
          containing loadable or executable code


       
          This process involves resolving references between the
          {modules} and fixing the {relocation} information used by the
          operating system {kernel} when loading the file into memory to
          run it.
       
          Under {Unix}, the linker is called "ld" and {object files}
          have filename extension .o (object), .so (shared object), or
          .lib ({library}), and the resulting {executable} is called
          "a.out" by default.
       
          (2001-10-13)