What are the types of dynamic linking methods available?

Dynamic linking are of two types - Implicit and Explicit.

Implicit Dynamic linking is done by the loader at the loading time of the process. Loader checks import symbols (dynsym)and import libraries and loads individual shared objects accordingly. If one or more objects are already loaded then they need not to be loaded again and only shared code section will be linked to the process. It will populate import table(dynsym) and resolves all external symbols from the shared object. Once linking is done process can execute shared function directly.

Another way is loading the symbol during run time explicitly. Operating system provides system calls to load a dynamic library and finding import symbol location, unloading the library etc. This way programmer can explicitly load a library and find out a symbol/function entry and execute that and then can unload that.

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