5.5 Compilation Techniques
Even though we don’t write our own assembly code much of the time, we still care about the characteristics of the code our compiler generates: its speed, its size, and its power consumption. Understanding how a compiler works will help us write code and direct the compiler to get the assembly language implementation we want. We will start with an overview of the compilation process, then some basic compilation methods, and conclude with some more advanced optimizations.
5.5.1 The Compilation Process
It is useful to understand how a high-level language program is translated into instructions: interrupt handling instructions, placement of data and instructions in memory, etc. Understanding how the compiler works can ...
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