The microcontroller on most arduinos is a normal atmel microcontroller. The build output of the arduino compiler is no different from traditional embedded comp

The microcontroller on most arduinos is a normal atmel microcontroller. The build output of the arduino compiler is no different from traditional embedded compilers. It's still just machine instructions. It's sort of similar to how Python runs on top of C. To the processor, it's all the same. It had no idea that you wrote your application in C or Python. They both end up as machine instructions.