Comments on: what is a compiler https://www.emblogic.com/blog/07/what-is-a-compiler/ Embedded System and ARM Training Mon, 07 Oct 2013 04:00:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.1 By: Vaibhav Singh https://www.emblogic.com/blog/07/what-is-a-compiler/#comment-980 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 07:17:41 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=3876#comment-980 Compiler is used to high level language (.c ) file to .s file which is low level assembly language file (.s format)
use command

#gcc -S hello.c //to get hello.s file

In case of assembler this assembly language (.s) file will be converted into object file (.o) .
use command

#gcc -c hello.c // to get hello.o file

compiler and assembler are used to perform 2 steps of compilation Process .

]]> By: chetan.malik https://www.emblogic.com/blog/07/what-is-a-compiler/#comment-964 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 08:35:16 +0000 http://emblogic.org/blog/?p=3876#comment-964 Compiler converts source code in high level language(.c format) to an executable machine code(.elf format).

Assembler on the other hand converts low level language like assembly language code to a object code(.out format)which needs to be linked by a linker for generating machine code(.so format).

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