Sunday, August 7, 2011

Chapter 1, question 9

9.  What is machine language?

It is the language that is executed directly by the CPU of a given computer architecture.  It is output by the compiler/linker.  My computer uses Intel x86-type machine language, but there are other types.  Machine language is NOT portable from one computer architecture to another, whereas C (theoretically) is.

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