What does the compile link do?

ruodeer · New User Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 58 Location: home

Hi everybody,
you know in the ordinary cobol compile job, there are 2 steps: compile and link, I want to know what do these compile and link do? especially the Link step, thanks very much.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 8:14 am

Hello,

The compile validates the source code and generates an "object" module.

The link processes the object module and any other needed modules and creates an executable module known as a load module.