Re: executable code versus non-executable code

"Spin" <Spin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:6iokckFrmbjvU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Today, I overheard four guys in a meeting bandying about executable code versus non-executable code. I couldn't quite follow but what I thought I heard was executable code was things like exe's and non-executable code was like dll's (they can't be executed directly, they must be called by something else. Is my understanding close to correct?

It's a bit of an artificial distinction, because the code in a DLL is the same kind as the code in an EXE, and EXEs are run by causing them to load - in other words, they don't just run by themselves.

Code doesn't just run by itself, it has to be loaded by other code, in a chain of execution that goes all the way back to the boot-loader, which is loaded by the hardware.

Alun.
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