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Chapter 4 Creating Executable Program Files This chapter discusses executable program files and how HP Link Editor/XL creates and displays them. It also explains how to display symbols in a relocatable object file. The link editor creates executable program files from relocatable object files and relocatable libraries as follows. First, it merges the specified relocatable object files and libraries into one module and resolves inter-module references. Then, it searches the specified relocatable libraries resolving external references to symbols undefined after the merge operation. When a relocatable object module in the library resolves an external reference, the module is merged into the executable program file that is being built. In the last step, the link editor assigns virtual addresses to all symbols, binds references to the known symbols within each relocatable object module, and puts the resulting executable program in a form that the loader can process.