Runtime Linker - CI/CD Glossary Definition
The runtime linker resolves references to symbols in shared libraries while a program runs, either eagerly at startup or lazily on first call (PLT/GOT); a missing or ABI-mismatched library surfaces here as a load-time failure in CI.
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