Z:gnu-www-ja-gcc-exception-3.1-faq--049bc4-When you compile those source/en

When you compile those source code files, they usually go through a series of steps: source code generation, preprocessing, compilation to low-level code, assembling, and linking. Not all projects follow all these steps, depending on what language you're using and how it's written, but they'll always go in this order, and everyone using GCC will go through the process of compiling high-level code into some low-level language such as assembly code or Java bytecode. This phase is when GCC combines or links your own code with code from the GCC libraries. We call it the &ldquo;Compilation Process.&rdquo; The output you get from it is called &ldquo;Target Code,&rdquo; as long as that output is not used as compiler intermediate representation, or to create such an intermediate representation.