In computer programming, machine code is computer code consisting of machine language instructions, which are used to control a computer's central processing...
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A machine code monitor (a.k.a. machine language monitor) is software that allows a user to enter commands to view and change memory locations on a computer...
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human readable source code to control the behavior of a computer. Since a computer, at base, only understands machine code, source code must be translated...
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Assembly language (redirect from Symbolic Machine Code)
programming, assembly language (alternatively assembler language or symbolic machine code), often referred to simply as assembly and commonly abbreviated as ASM...
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programming, a P-code machine (portable code machine) is a virtual machine designed to execute P-code, the assembly language or machine code of a hypothetical...
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Computer programming (redirect from Code readability)
programming languages that are more easily intelligible to humans than machine code, which is directly executed by the central processing unit. Proficient...
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Instruction set architecture (redirect from Zero address machine)
running the same machine code, so that a lower-performance, lower-cost machine can be replaced with a higher-cost, higher-performance machine without having...
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script code into a server-side application. Other approaches must be taken, however, when dealing with injections of user code on a user-operated machine, which...
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Compiler (redirect from Code compilation)
source code from a high-level programming language to a low-level programming language (e.g. assembly language, object code, or machine code) to create...
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Computer numerical control (redirect from CNC machine)
are delivered to a CNC machine in the form of a sequential program of machine control instructions such as G-code and M-code, and then executed. The...
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The machine's code was cracked by Poland, France, the United Kingdom and the United States; the latter code-named it INDIGO. An Enigma T model, code-named...
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translation to machine code, which is then executed directly. A system implementing a JIT compiler typically continuously analyses the code being executed...
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Interpreter (computing) (redirect from Code interpretation)
compiled into a machine language program. An interpreter generally uses one of the following strategies for program execution: Parse the source code and perform...
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In computer science, self-modifying code (SMC or SMoC) is code that alters its own instructions while it is executing – usually to reduce the instruction...
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Microcode (redirect from Micro-code)
known as its machine code.[page needed] It consists of a set of hardware-level instructions that implement the higher-level machine code instructions...
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source code is exactly equivalent to its own output. Metamorphic code also usually outputs machine code and not its own source code. Metamorphic code is used...
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Computer (redirect from Computing machine)
individual instructions are stored as machine code with each instruction being given a unique number (its operation code or opcode for short). The command...
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Computer program (redirect from Software code)
is called source code. Source code needs another computer program to execute because computers can only execute their native machine instructions. Therefore...
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Executable (redirect from Executable code)
executable machine code file or a non-executable machine code – object file of some sort; the equivalent process on assembly language source code is called...
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usually a machine code language (i.e., binary) or an intermediate language such as register transfer language (RTL). The term indicates that the code is the...
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Obfuscation (software) (redirect from Shrouded code)
source or machine code that is intentionally difficult for humans or computers to understand. Similar to obfuscation in natural language, code obfuscation...
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description and target code generation. A notable 1966 example was the O-code machine, a virtual machine that executes O-code (object code) emitted by the front...
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Translator (computing) (redirect from Machine-translatability of programs)
programming instructions written in human convenient form into machine language codes that the computers understand and process. It is a generic term...
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In computing, position-independent code (PIC) or position-independent executable (PIE) is a body of machine code that executes properly regardless of...
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software engineering, code coverage, also called test coverage, is a percentage measure of the degree to which the source code of a program is executed...
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Java bytecode (redirect from Java byte-code)
instruction set of the Java virtual machine (JVM), the language to which Java and other JVM-compatible source code is compiled. Each instruction is represented...
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generate code in that form or be implemented in that form themselves. The code may be processed by an interpreter or it may simply be a sequence of machine code...
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LLVM (redirect from Low level virtual machine)
7.5. LLVM can also generate relocatable machine code at compile-time or link-time or even binary machine code at runtime. LLVM supports a language-independent...
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any internal optimization of the Java virtual machine instructions (their translation into machine code) are not specified. The main reason for this omission...
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