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Extreme C
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Extreme C

by Kamran Amini
October 2019
Intermediate to advanced
822 pages
20h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 02

From Source to Binary

In programming, everything starts with source code. In reality, source code, which sometimes goes by the other name of the code base, usually consists of a number of text files. Within that, each of those text files contains textual instructions written in a programming language.

We know that a CPU cannot execute textual instructions. The reality is that these instructions should first be compiled (or translated) to machine-level instructions in order to be executed by a CPU, which eventually will result in a running program.

In this chapter, we go through the steps needed to get a final product out of C source code. This chapter goes into the subject in great depth, and as such we've split it into five distinct ...

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