What is machine language ?

Question

Explain what u undersatnd by the term 'Machine language'. Write a short report, making use of examples where relevent?

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Answer 1

These answers are not quite accurate so far folks.

Machine language is just numbers. It is not assembly code or any tag to refer to operating instructions.

It is just bytes in a file of numbers. 1 or more bytes referers to an instruction that the processor can execute and 1 or more bytes contain the data that the opcode (the number that translates to an operation) will operate on.

The file is loaded into memory then executed by loading the bytes for the instruction, then the data, then executing that instruction, then reading more bytes and continuing according to the numbers in the file. That is all machine language is.

If you have the right books for a particular processor family you can actually backwards translate it into assembly language but it takes an extreme amount of work to do.

So that is what is machine language is, the numbers that translate to the actual instructions and data the processor will work on.

Any good book on operating systems should cover that subject at least in passing.

Answer 2

Machine code or machine language is a system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.

Called firmware or Assembly language they use mnemonic codes to refer to machine code instructions. Such a more readable rendition of the machine language is called an assembly language and consists of both numbers and simple words whereas machine code is composed only of numbers, usually represented in either binary or hexadecimal.

Answer 3

Machine code or machine language is a system of instructions and data directly understandable by a computer's central processing unit.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_language