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Not to be confused with the standard library, it's a piece of software necessary to do the very initial setup operations to make your program run (for example s
by panta 9y ago
Not to be confused with the standard library, it's a piece of software necessary to do the very initial setup operations to make your program run (for example setup the stack, etc.). It's platform-, OS- and compiler- dependent.
It's usually included in the final executable by the linker.
- PaulHoule 9y agoNot just initial setup, but also ongoing services. For instance, a language like Java has the garbage collector, JIT, etc. as part of the runtime.