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Before a program can be run, the source code has to be translated into an executable format by a compiler. This step transforms the human-readable source code into binary machine code, which is a sequence of instructions that can be executed by a computer.
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© 2015 Mikael Olsson
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Olsson, M. (2015). Compile and Run. In: C Quick Syntax Reference. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6500-9_2
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