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I might be off from the standard definition, but normally I think of "assembly language" as meaning a language that can be transformed to machine code by using
by axguscbklp 5y ago
I might be off from the standard definition, but normally I think of "assembly language" as meaning a language that can be transformed to machine code by using a simple 1-to-1 substitution. Using this definition, there is no way to tell an assembly language when you see one unless you know every machine code that the question could possibly have in mind.
That said, probably most of the time when people say "assembly language" their definition is not as strict as mine.
- axguscbklp 5y agoNow that I think of it, I do think of it as 1-to-1 substitution, but it is not completely trivial - when transforming to machine code, you do generally have to keep track of where in the code you are to know whether to try to transform an assembly language token into a machine language opcode or into some other sort of machine language value.