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May 10, 2009 · Not all compilers do this - the MS compilers produce object code directly, though you can make them generate assembler output. Translating assembler to object code is a pretty simple process, at least compared with C→Assembly or C→Machine-code translation.
Aug 5, 2019 · A compiler does usually convert high-level code directly to machine language, but it can be built in a modular way so that one back-end emits machine code and the other assembly code (like GCC).
To all intents and purposes, yes. The only thing that the processor can execute is machine code. Everything else is either translated into machine code at compile time (like C or C++), or is interpreted at runtime, like CMD.
Compilers may output assembly code, linkable object code, or ready-to-run machine code; I've worked with examples of all three types.
Not all compilers produce "machine code" (except for the trivial interpretation that all code in some language is machine code for an abstract machine induced by that language). For example, lots of compilers produce ECMAScript source code: CoffeeScript, TypeScript, PureScript, Elm, Opal, GWT, Emscripten, Babel, Clozure, Scala.js, Kotlin, Clue.
Jan 20, 2023 · Compilers for languages intended to be machine-independent, such as Java, Python, or C#, translate the source code into byte code for a virtual machine, which is then run in an interpreter for...
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We can actually (theoretically) compile any language into machine code with a wrapper. A great example is a tool like py2exe, where we wrap the Python runtime with some script that you'd like to run and produce a single binary; that's all machine code.