Talk:Runtime library

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I really thank you, the author of this article which is the only definition and explanation of "Runtime Library" I can find in the whole web.

But I'm sorry that I still don't get it, what is a "Runtime Library" exactly. (I'm only a beginner of windows programming.)

Your definition of "Runtime Library" is,

- "a runtime library is a special program library used by a compiler to implement functions built into a programming language during the runtime (execution) of a computer program. "

Exactly What is done during the runtime? The implementing functions? The Building functions into a programming language?

Could anyone show a example? and what does the example "Runtime Libary" exactly do?

- Daniel Kang.

I too stumbled across this introductory definition. I think it is not correct.

"[...] a runtime library is a special program library used by a compiler [...] during the runtime (execution) of a computer program." This sentence is wrong imho. A compiler is only "active" on a program during compile time in order to generate machine code (among other things). When the compile time is over and the program is executed (this is runtime) the compiler is no more active.

The same misunderstandings apply to the following sentence: Many programming languages have built-in functions that do not necessarily have to be realized in the compiler, but can be implemented in the runtime library.

Shouldn't it read by the compiler?

--Abdull (talk) 19:25, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I still don't get it.

Can you tell us like we are totally new to the world of programming.Lounes653 (talk) 02:30, 21 December 2007 (UTC)