On Jul 22, 5:59 am, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2008-07-22, Larry Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You talk about "writing it in assembly language for each MPU > >> chip". Actually it is even better than that. We now have > >> these modern inventions, called compilers that do that type of > >> work for us. They translate high level instructions, not > >> into assembler but into machine language. > > > Actually, all of the compilers I'm familiar with (gcc and a > > handful of cross compilers for various microprocessors) > > translate from high-level languages (e.g. C, C++) into > > assembly, which is then assembled into relocatable object > > files, which are then linked/loaded to produce machine > > language. > > I just learned something I did not know. I was under the impression that they > translated directly to machine code without ever actually generating Assembler > text files. Seems like a waste to generate the text and turn around run that > through the assembler, but what do I know. I guess that way the compiler can > have pluggable assembler back-ends. > > -Larry
I also I have just learned something new! Troll threads are useful. Yay. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
