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> Assembly or assembling is the process of using an assembler to assemble assembler code

Assembly is also the result of something that was assembled.



No, those are called objects or object files. ;)

(which is why the tool to handle them is called objdump)


I'm talking general English. What happens when you assembly a group of people? You have an assembly. The same can be said for other objects.


This should read:

> What happens when you assemble a group of people? You have an assembly. The same can be said for other objects.


Tell that to your National Object File.




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