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Authored by brooks on May 22 2025, 10:34 PM.
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We're invoking the linker to create programs or libraries from one or
more object files not the loader to load them in to memory.

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Huh this came from 4.4 Lite and has been this way for decades.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 22 2025, 11:22 PM

I fully support this in my quest for linker == static linker, or link-editor and loader == run-time loader, or dynamic linker. Certainly linker can be overloaded for both, but I only ever see loader used for loading a binary into memory, not for generating a linked executable.