what is work area in system programming?

i have read it when i was learnin开发者_开发百科g linking. When the program is going to be executed it was first linked by linker. At that time it was put in work area. Now i want to now what is this work area?

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Static linking is done as part of the compilation process today.

Compile->Assemble->Link = Executable.

Typically when a program is loaded today on the desktop, it is placed into virtual memory and any dynamic linking is performed then.