What do you mean by code generation

Question

What do you mean by code generation? Explain in detail?

Answer 1

Code generation is the final stage of compilation process. The purpose of this stage is to transform syntactically correct program to a suitable series of instruction which could be executed by the machine. This takes as input the optimized intermediate codes in the form of matrix and produces as output the assembly code. For this, it takes into account the architecture of the machine and works in the conjugation by symbol table and error handler phase.