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Originally Posted by ApK
Well, assembler, not compiler, technically I guess, and you don't need a disassembler for it to work, only for you to more easily work with it.
And as long as there is a 1 to 1 relationship between mnemonics and machine instructions, isn't it equally as low level as flipping switches?
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Well, not quite. It becomes very unreadable or understandable when using self changing code or jumping inbetween instructions. Still say it is a compiler - unless you don't consider higher level compilers to be still assembly language (e.g. Microsoft's macro assembler).