The precious chapters studied the phases of a compiler that perform static analysis of the source language Scanning, parsing, and static semantic analysis Depends only on the properties of the source language This chapter and the next turn to the task of studying how a compiler generates executable code Additional analysis such as that performed by an optimizer Some of this can be machine independent, but much of the task of code generation is dependent on the details of the target machine• The precious chapters studied the phases of a compiler that perform static analysis of the source language – Scanning, parsing, and static semantic analysis – Depends only on the properties of the source language • This chapter and the next turn to the task of studying how a compiler generates executable code – Additional analysis, such as that performed by an optimizer – Some of this can be machine independent, but much of the task of code generation is dependent on the details of the target machine