SOURCE CODE AND OBJECT CODE
object code or sometimes an object module is what a computer compiler produces in a general sense object code is a sequence of statements or instructions in a computer language usually a machine code language that is binary or an intermediate language such as register transfer language object files can in turn be linked to form an executable file or library file in order to be used object code must either be placed in an executable file a library file or an object file object code is a portion of machine code that has not yet been linked into a complete program it is the machine code for one particular library or module that will make up the completed product it may also contain placeholders or offsets not found in the machine code of a completed program that the linker will use to connect everything together whereas machine code is binary code that can be executed directly by the CPU object code has the jumps partially parameterised so that a linker can fill them in an assembler is used to convert assembly code into machine code object code a linker links several object and library files to generate an executable assemblers can also assemble directly to machine code executable files without the object intermediary step
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