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Does a C++ compiler generate machine code via assembly language code (i.e., c++ compiler first converts C++ code to assembly language code and then uses assembly language compiler to convert it to machine code), or is assembly language output generation just an option for reference or debugging purposes?
It doesn’t have to, but most do it anyway, as the same assembler (program) can be used for the output of the C/C++/whatever-to-assembler compiler.
g++ for example generates assembler code first (you can see the generated assembler using the
-Sswitch).MSVC does it too (
/FAs).