Why do compilers produce assembly code?

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Assembly language is converted in to machine language by assembler. Why would a compiler convert high-level language to assembly? Can't it directly convert from the high-level language to machine code?

Asked By : CODERSAM

Answered By : Martin Berger

Other reason for compilers to produce assembly rather than proper machine code are:

• The symbolic addresses used by assemblers instead of hard-coding machine addresses make code relocation much easier.
• Linking code may involve safety checks such as type-checking, and that's easier to do with symbolic names.
• Small changes in machine code are easier to accomodate by changing the assembler rather than the code generator.

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