Computer History Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes - v3.13, by Herong Yang
Compilation and Execution Process of C Programs
This section describes steps of the compilation and execution process of C programs: preprocessing, compilation, assembly, linking and loading.
The compilation and execution process of C can be divided in to multiple steps:
Here is a simple table showing input and output of each step in the compilation and execution process:
Input Program Output source code > Preprocessor > expanded source code expanded source code > Compiler > assembly source code assembly code > Assembler > object code object code > Linker > executable code executable code > Loader > execution
Here are examples of commonly used programs for different compilation and execution steps on a Linux system:
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2002 - .NET Framework Developed by Microsoft
1995 - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Created by Rasmus Lerdorf
1995 - Java Language Developed by Sun Microsystems
1991 - WWW (World Wide Web) Developed by Tim Berners-Lee
1991 - Gopher Protocol Created by a University of Minnesota Team
1984 - X Window System Developed a MIT Team
1984 - Macintosh Developed by Apple Inc.
1983 - "Sendmail" Mail Transfer Agent Developed by Eric Allman
1979 - The Tcsh (TENEX C Shell) Developed by Ken Greer
1978 - Bash (Bourne-Again Shell) Developed by Brian Fox
1978 - The C Shell Developed by Bill Joy
1977 - The Bourne Shell Developed by Stephen Bourne
1977 - Apple II Designed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
1976 - vi Text Editor Developed by Bill Joy
1974 - Internet by Vinton Cerf
►1972 - C Language Developed by Dennis Ritchie
►Compilation and Execution Process of C Programs
Sample C Program for Arrays and Pointers
Sample C Program for Dynamic Memory Allocation - malloc()
1971 - FTP Protocol Created by Abhay Bhushan
1970 - UNIX Operating System Developed by AT&T Bell Labs