A library is code, data, fixups (I think that's the wrong word, sorry) and a little bit of red tape for the file format.

Fixups are changes to be made at runtime by the dynamic linker in order to make sure the code and calls work correctly at the runtime-assigned address(es). It may include loading subsidiary libraries. (The compiler/linker may optimise the library for a particular address, but the address-independency work is still done in principle.)

Data is static variables, values of constant strings and such.

Arnt

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