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Top Forums Programming How Can a Machine Reads a Compiler Since A Compiler is Written in Text! Not Binaries? Post 302257985 by f.ben.isaac on Thursday 13th of November 2008 01:41:50 PM
Old 11-13-2008
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Originally Posted by jim mcnamara
You are asking the chicken & egg question - which comes first?
You can write a binary executable directly in hex, so very early assemblers (which are compilers) were written that way. There also were link editors as well. ld for example.

I like Corona's explanation. I think at one time I read that as well.

Most compilers are based on lex & yacc. Read about those.

>>You can write a binary executable directly in hex,

And HEX, so what translates these hexes to binaries for the compiler?
If a agree with you, writing in binary 1 & 0 will make machine understand what do you want to do! There has to be convertion between hexes to binaries and since hex is not binaries, what does the conversion! Machine does not giva a damn to anything else except if there is another binary written as a translator who translates hexes back to binary. Any idea?

I'm very new to this, i ask in a very dummy questions to know the basics - only overview, no technical stuff....

THANKS
 

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EEP24C(1)						      General Commands Manual							 EEP24C(1)

NAME
eep24c - read and write 24Cxxx eeprom devices SYNOPSIS
eep24c -d device [ -r[n] filename | -w[n] filename | -k[n] filename | -f[n] xx ] DESCRIPTION
The command eep24c can be used to read and write 24Cxxx eeprom devices. OPTIONS
The following options are available: -d device Specify the device type. To see a list of the supported devices, try -d help -r filename Read from eeprom and save to a file. -w filename Read from a file and write to eeprom. The addresses not specified in the input file will be filled with 00. -k filename Read from a file and write to eeprom. The addresses not specified in the input file will be kept with its previous values. (this mode is twice slower. It reads whole memory to know previous values, then write whole memory) -f XX Fills the whole eeprom with XX (XX is an hexadecimal value) n Can be used to multiply clock time. If you have a long cable, you may use this option. Example: -r5 will read eeprom 5 times slower (pulse width will be standard value multiplied by 5). Valid range for n is from 1 to 50. Default value is 1. USAGE EXAMPLES
eep24c -d 24c04 -r file.hex read eeprom, write to file.hex eep24c -d 24c04 -r3 file.hex read eeprom, write to file.hex, 3 times slower. eep24c -d 24c04 -w file.hex read file.hex and write to eeprom. All the bytes not found in file.hex will be written as 00. eep24c -d 24c04 -k file.hex read file.hex and write to eeprom. All the bytes not found in file.hex will remain unchanged. eep24c -d 24c04 -f 7A fill eeprom with 7A (hexadecimal). INPUT AND OUTPUT FORMAT
Input and output file format is Intel Hexadecimal Object File Format You can find this specification at ftp://download.intel.com/support/processors/ i960/devtools/INTELHEX.PDF Record types 00 and 01 are implemented in this version. In input lines, LF and CR+LF are accepted as newline markers. Output files are generated with LF as a newline marker. DEVICE SPECIFIC
If you are using Microchip 24*515, you must tie its pin A2 to VCC (needs a hardware modification, see device datasheet). SEE ALSO
ihex2txt(1), txt2ihex(1). AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Pedro Zorzenon Neto <pzn@vztech.com.br>. 2002-11-14 EEP24C(1)
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