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• systemvoltage 5y ago
  > Before we go on, why would I even begin to bother pointing out that a pound sign is called an octothorpe? The answer is simple: I think the word octothorpe is so excellently funny, I have to gratuitously spread its name around whenever I get the opportunity. Octothorpe. Octothorpe, octothorpe, octothorpe. So anyway. After the C preprocessor has finished preprocessing everything, the results are ready for the compiler to take them and produce assembly code8, machine code9, or whatever it’s about to do. Don’t worry about the technical details of compilation for now; just know that your source runs through the preprocessor, then the output of that runs through the compiler, then that produces an executable for you to run. Octothorpe. This is the most excellent! The author is hilarious, I'm already hooked. Thanks!