Fortran - Re: Function PRESENT and logical combinations

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Re: Function PRESENT and logical combinations

Jan Vorbrüggen

2004-06-25, 7:43 pm

> In fact, I can't remember any variation of "link" being the name of
> either the tool or the process in systems between the old IBM stuff and
> the advent of PC

On VAX/VMS, LINK.EXE is the name of the program, and everybody always called
that step "linking of the executable". Loading the program into memory and
actually performing some of the necessary relocation and address fixups is
performed by the "image activator".

I think the term "loader" came from the time when there wasn't (usually) a
way to save the linked executable for later execution, e.g., on many non-
timeshared systems. There, linking and loading where done in one step, and
the result "thrown away" after execution.

Jan

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