Back to Basics: Compiling and Linking
summary
Explains exactly how preprocessing, compilation, instantiation and linking produce object files and how inline and constexpr functions become allowed multiple definitions, why explicit template specializations belong in source files, and how explicit template instantiation forces a single emitted definition. Shows using a linker script to place code and data in RAM or flash, walks a concrete example program through each build stage, and demonstrates the instantiation+linker approach reduces rebuilds and yields the expected memory layout.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:36Compiling and Linking
- 6:44Declarations and definitions
- 9:44Function declarations
- 14:44The build process
- 22:04Object files
- 29:01One definition rule
- 41:53Templates
- 45:45Functions and Classes
- 46:54Template Definition
- 49:34Memory Map
- 51:13Linkers
- 56:08Explicit Instantiation
- 57:53Examples
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