GCSE J277 - 2.5.1 - Purpose of Translators

Converts high and low level language into machine code

• Error Diagnostics
• Translator
• IDE
• Text Editor

Translates high level code into machine code and creates an executable

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• None of them

Translates assembly code into machine code

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• None of them

Translates high level code into machine code all at once

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• None of them

Translates high level code into machine code one line at a time

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• None of them

Translates high level code into machine code and stops when it gets to an error

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• None of them

Translates high level code into machine code and reports all the errrors at the end

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• None of them

Translates low level mnemonics into machine code

• Assembler
• Interpreter
• Compiler
• None of them

Translators aren't needed, CPUs can understand high level and assembly code

• True
• False

A Compiler translates code one line at a time

• True
• False