HP Pascal/iX Programmer's Guide (31502-90023)

B- 6

Pascal compiler, which compiles your program and stores the resultant

code in an object file. The name of the object file ends in .o (if the

source file name is prog.p, the object file name is prog.o). If prog.p

is the only file parameter of a particular pc command, and it compiles

and links successfully, then the object file is not saved.

If the compiler does not find errors in the program, the

command calls

the linker,

, which links the object file with required library files

into a program file. The name of the program file is a.out (unless you

specify another name in the

command) and it resides in the directory

from which

was invoked. The program file is ready to run.

Figure B-1 shows how a file named

prog.p

becomes a running program on

HP-UX.

Figure B-1. How a File Becomes a Running Program on HP-UX