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Sep 27, 2013 · Compilers that produce native machine code do produce the appropriate assembly language that is then assembled into machine code. That is normally done in a single step, but some compilers, like GCC, can output the intermediate assembly as well. You are correct in that different architectures have differing instruction sets.
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). The code generation phase produces "code" which is some internal representation of machine code, which then has to be converted to a usable format like machine language or assembly code.
Notice that some compilers are indeed generating directly machine code, and some of them are even generating machine code in the same process that is running the compiler (a typical example of that last case is the SBCL implementation of Common Lisp: every time you interactively type some expression in its REPL, it is getting translated to ...
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.
Oct 23, 2015 · 3. A Java compiler produces code for the JVM. So the target machine of a compiler can be a virtual machine that is not executed directly by the hardware. The main difference between interpreter and compiler is that a compiler first checks and translates the whole source code into a target machine language.
So different compilers are likely to create different binary files from the same source code. But they are going to do exactly the same thing. In fact one given compiler could produce different binary files from the same source, if you change the code optimization options or other parameters.
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Jan 20, 2023 · Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...
