label:An identifier representing an address.
large memory model:A program with multiple code and data segments.
LIB:The environment variable used by LINK to find default libraries.
.LIB:The extension for a static library.
library:A collection of routines or data made available to one or more programs through static or dynamic linking.
LIM EMS:Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory Specification.
LINK:The environment variable used by LINK for command-line options.
linking:The process in which the linker resolves all external references by searching the run-time and user libraries and then computes absolute offset addresses for these references. The linking process results in a single executable file.
list file:A text file of information produced by a utility such as LIB. See “map file.”
listing:A generic term for a map, list, or cross-reference file.
.LNK:The extension that is often used to indicate a response file.
load library:A static library specified to the linker as an object file, causing all modules in the library to be linked into the program. See “static library.”
local symbol:An identifier that is visible only within a particular routine. See “global symbol.”
Local window:The CodeView window in which the local variables for the current routine are displayed.
logical segment:A segment defined in an object module. Each physical segment other than DGROUP contains exactly one logical segment, except when you use the GROUP directive in a Microsoft Macro Assembler module. (Linking with the /PACKC option can also create more than one logical segment per physical segment.)
long integer:In CodeView and the C language, a whole number represented by a 32-bit two's complement value. Long integers have a range of –2,147,483,648 to +2,147,483,647. See “integer.”
low memory:See “conventional memory.”
.LRF:The extension that is often used to indicate a response file. PWB creates response files with the .LRF extension.
.LST:The extension that is often used to indicate a list file.
l-value:An expression (such as a variable name) that refers to a single memory location and is required as the left operand of an assignment operation or the single operand of a unary operator. For example, X1 is an l-value, but X1+X2 is not.