Embedded Systems with ARM Cortex-M Microcontrollers in Assembly Language and C:Fourth Edition - Info and Reading Options

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This chapter demonstrates how a machine program is generated and executed. If you do not fully understand every detail presented, do not feel discouraged. This chapter is merely meant to be a general introduction. The following chapters explain the assembly programming concepts in detail. [...] Compiler translate a human-readable source program written in a high-level programming language, such as C, into a low-level machine-understandable executable file encoded into binary. When a compiler creates an executable from source code, it may also apply complex optimization techniques to the executable to reduce the code size, minimize ressource usage, and improve execution speed.