Introduction

• Overview of Comile-time vs. Run-time
• eliding details

Fiction

• Programmers generalize (think of) 2 phases

Reality

• Compiler generates object files and DLLs
• Operating system loads object files and DLLs
• Operating system "fixes up" holes in DLLs
• App initializes
  • compiler leaves islands of initialization code
  • top-level data, e.g. var x = "abc";
• App runs