For those very rare occasions when an app's source code is all that's available, Wired details how to compile it yourself. Photo by artonice.

Before producing machine code, a compiler thoroughly examines the entire source code. As a result, it may detect a variety of mistakes during compilation, including logical flaws, type issues and ...

The Clacc project is working to bring an open source OpenACC compiler and source code translation capability to the HPC and scientific communities. Rob Farber is a global technology consultant and ...

IBM is announcing on Tuesday availability of an open source machine learning compiler, which the company said intelligently optimizes applications, thus meaning shorter development times and ...

Source code can also be machine generated by programs that convert the source code of one programming language or dialect into the source code of another language or dialect.

Text is then transformed into machine code instructions by a corresponding compiler for performance boosts over code that is otherwise interpreted at run time.

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A compiler translates an entire program into machine code before execution. Discovering errors in the code can be ...

To help with the reverse engineering of malware, Avast has released an open-source version of its machine-code decompiler, RetDec, that has been under development for over seven years.

Obfuscation tools work with source code, machine or binary code, and bytecode. To determine which type of code is best to obfuscate, you need to keep in mind the limitations of each choice.

For Super Mario 64, Nintendo compiled its source code without any fancy compiler options, meaning the decompiled assembly language is simpler to convert back to C code.