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* [[:Category:Compilers and Interpreters|List of compilers and interpreters]] |
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* [[wp:Compiler|Wikipedia page about compilers]] |
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* [http://www-old.oberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf Free PDF of Niklaus Wirth's "Compiler Construction"] |
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Revision as of 23:55, 16 January 2009
A compiler reads the source code of a program, and produces machine code or bytecode.
Some compilers translate source code into object code. This object code is then passed to a linker, which creates machine code. Other compilers translate into intermediate languages, like C.