Is Assembler Language essential in compiler construction?

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Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:34:36 -0800 (PST)

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From: marco.m.petersen@gmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 02:34:36 -0800 (PST)
Organization: Compilers Central
Keywords: assembler, question
Posted-Date: 10 Feb 2009 09:46:07 EST

Is Assembler Language essential in compiler construction? I've read a
few e-Books on compiler construction and it always says that knowledge
of assembly is essential.


I mean, if you wrote a program that converts code from BASIC to C++
then calls another compiler to do the compilation process, wouldn't
that be considered as a compiler?


I would appreciate any help I can get.


Thanks,
Marco
[You certainly need to understand the target language of your compiler.
Perhaps they weren't anticipating translators that target high level
languages. -John]


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