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From Source Code to a Running Process

The journey a program takes from a text file you wrote to a living process the CPU is executing. Every section is a drawn page beside a clear written explanation, about 18 minutes in all.

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The first drawn page of From Source Code to a Running Process: The gap between a .c file and a live process
The chapter's first page: The gap between a .c file and a live process

In this chapter

  • The gap between a .c file and a live process
  • The four build stages
  • Linking: static vs dynamic
  • The executable format (ELF)
  • Loading: from file to memory
  • The process address space in memory
  • Static vs dynamic, and why it matters
  • Recap: the full journey & what a process now is

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