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CSE1303 Computer Science
Semester 2, 2003
Part B
Lecture B07 notes: Interpreters, compilers and assembly language

In this lecture

• Interpreters
  • Programs which read source code for other programs, and perform their instructions.
• Compilers
  • Programs which read source code for other programs, and generate machine language programs which can later be run.
  • Translator turns C code into assembly language code
  • Assembler turns assembly language code into object code
  • Linker collects object code files into executable file
  • Using gcc to compile multiple-source-file programs.
• Machine language
• Assembly language
  • Instructions
  • Opcodes
  • Operands
    • Registers
    • Immediate (constant) numbers
  • Labels
  • Assembler directives (start with .)

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