Python Written in C?

[Tim Roberts]

Larry Bates <larry.bates at websafe.com`> wrote:
> 
>I just learned something I did not know.  I was under the impression that they 
>translated directly to machine code without ever actually generating Assembler 
>text files. 

Some do, some don't.  It's an implementation chioce.  gcc generates a text
file and pipes it to gas.  The __asm__ directive just adds strings to the
assembler file.

Visual C++ generates machine language.  The compiler has to include an
assembler for inline assembly.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.