COMPILER DESIGN

CODE GENERATION

ROLE OF CODE GENERATION

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Assembly language is another name for machine code.
A
True
B
False
C
Either A or B
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Assembly language may also be called symbolic machine code. Assembly code is converted into executable machine code by a utility program referred to as an assembler. The conversion process is referred to as assembly, or assembling the source code.

Detailed explanation-2: -An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer’s hardware. Unlike machine language, which consists of binary and hexadecimal characters, assembly languages are designed to be readable by humans.

Detailed explanation-3: -Assembly language is also known as assembly code. The term is often also used synonymously with 2GL.

Detailed explanation-4: -Machine Code or Assembly is code which has been formatted for direct execution by a CPU. Machine Code is the why readable programming languages like C, when compiled, cannot be reversed into source code (well Decompilers can sort of, but more on that later).

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