Chapter: Object Oriented Programming and Data Structure : Data Abstraction & Overloading
Overview of C++
Overview of C++:
The compilation process
When you
write a program in C++, your first step is to create a file that contains the
text of the program, which is called a source
file. Before you can run your program, you need to translate the source
file into an executable form. The first step in that process is to invoke a
program called a compiler, which
translates the source file into an object
file containing the corresponding machine-language instructions. This
object file is then combined with other object files to produce an executable file that can be run on the
system. The other object files typically include predefined object files,
called libraries, that contain the
machine-language instructions for various operations commonly required by
programs. The process of combining all the individual object files into an
executable file is called linking.
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