What is the difference between compiler and linker?

Question

state any two differences...

Answer 1

Compiler does syntactical and semantical evaluations.
Linker does address binding.
Compiler during evaluation gives the offset address.
Linker during evaluation gives the base address and offset address.

Answer 2

Compiler Linker

Answer 3

Compiler is a system program that compiles the high level programming language source code (nothing but an ASCII text file) that you write (*.c, *.cpp, etc.) and transforms (in case of successful compilation) it into a machine understandable program - which is a binary image of program (here the output is *.obj).

Linker is a system program which links the intermediate object file (*.obj) produced by the compiler with the library functions that comes along with the language library and produce the executable file (*.exe) which when loaded in memory starts execution as per the instructions stored in it.

Answer 4

difference between compiler and linker is that:
1. Compiler compile the program and find the syntax error, where linker link the .obj file(object file), and finds the linking error.
2. After successfully compilation compiler produce object file which is used by linker. where after successfully linking .exe file(executable file) produced.

Answer 5

compiler converts the high level language to machine language at a time while linker connects the compiled code with other compiled codes or programs (LIB) library files

Answer 6

A compiler converts a program or subroutine into machine readable code. A linker joins compiled programs and subroutines together to form one linked module that can be executed.