object code

object code

[′äb‚jekt ‚kōd]

(computer science)

The statements generated from source code by a compiler, constituting an intermediate step in the translation of source code into executable machine language.

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object code

The machine code generated by a source code language processor such as an assembler or compiler. A file of object code may be immediately executable or it may require linking with other object code files, e.g. libraries, to produce a complete executable program.

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object code

The machine language representation of programming source code. A compiler (software) converts the source code into object code and links it to other object code modules (libraries) to become an executable program. Object code is an old term that has no relationship to object technology which came after it. See executable code, linker, machine language and object-oriented programming.

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