Relocation is the adaptation of a piece of code assembled on a certain address in memory to another address It is a typical task of dynamic linkers and program loaders, and thus last step in a standard development toolchain.
Relocation is the adaptation of a piece of code assembled on a certain address in memory to another address. It is a typical task of dynamic linkers and program loaders, and thus last step in a standard development toolchain. (typically make - preprocessor - compiler - assembler - archiver - linker - loader)
Relocations can be symbolic or by just adding the base load address of the module (binary/library), the latter is often called a fixup. The object code of some executable formats is assembled to start at 0, making the normal linking process have some relocation aspects also.
The standard book about this subject is "Linkers and Loaders" by John R. Levine.
