Mechanics of C++

[dasman]

Hi I just wanted a good reference which describes the various terminology like compile time, linking, assembler, runtime etc. I can write programs in C++ and can see that object files and the executable are generated but i do not know the intermediate steps in detail.

[Albatross]

The Wikipedia articles are very good about explaining how all that works. You might find a better source of information at www.research.att.com, though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler#Compiler_design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_file
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linker_(computing)

-Albatross