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assembly source is the byproduct of compilers not their output.
by sedatk 10y ago
assembly source is the byproduct of compilers not their output.
- smcl 10y agoGenerally speaking compiler will take C/C++/Go/whatever and produce assembly as output. The Assembler will produce take this output .asm/.s and produce some form of binary. The Linker will take these binaries and produce an executable you can run. Note this is oversimplified (and in some cases wrong) but the general point is that when you call a "compiler" you're generally calling a high-level utility that ties a number of separate components together.