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Its not wrong though (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] amki@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A compiler and an assembler do wildly different things though. An assembler simply replaces mnemonics while a compiler transfers instructions to a whole other language.

[–] Malfeasant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Depends on the language, really... C maps pretty closely to assembly language, it's not as simple as one mnemonic to one machine code byte, more like tokens get mapped to sequences of machine code, a function call translates to some code that sets up a stack frame, a return tears it down...