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title: "What is a compiler in Operating System?"  
description: "What is a compiler in Operating System?"  
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published: 2022-04-04  
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# What is a compiler in Operating System?

What is a [compiler](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/27/just-in-time-compiler) in [Operating System](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/229069/operating-system-development)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

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- **Compiler,** [**computer**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50301/how-to-find-the-configuration-of-your-own-computer) software that converts source code written in a high-level language (e.g., C++) into a set of machine-language instructions that a digital computer's CPU can understand. Compilers are huge programmes that include error-checking and other features.
- Some compilers convert high-level languages to intermediate assembly languages, which are then translated (assembled) into machine code via an assembler.
- Other compilers directly generate machine language. Grace Hopper, an American computer scientist, created the term compiler after designing one of the earliest compilers in the early 1950s.

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