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Old 21st October 2008
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Originally Posted by ocicat View Post
[*] The compiler itself only translates source code into object files. Nothing more.
If we're getting technical here, GCC first calls the pre-processor, then converts the output of the pre-processor to asm, then compiles the asm output into a binary object file. Then the linker can be used to link those object files into something like an application program or a shared library.
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