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Code Generation

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From Hardware to Software

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The object code-generation phase of a compiler produces a machine-code equivalent of the high-level-language source program. Thus this phase depends both on the high-level language whose programs are being compiled, and on the target machine.

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© 1982 Graham Lee

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Lee, G. (1982). Code Generation. In: From Hardware to Software. Macmillan Computer Science Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16786-9_25

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