Expert: Narendra - 2/23/2005

Question
sorry but what i mean is what is the factor to differentiate different types of compilers. There is a lot of compilers from software houses so in what factors or aspect such as the language each compiler used determines type of compiler they are.

Answer
Still it is not completely clear.
A compiler converts the source code to machine language.
Every language has a well-defined grammer and compiler has to act according to that.
C language has many different compilers such as: gcc, Turbo-C, Borland-C, VC etc.
Each of these have to comply to the same standard.
Still some of them cater to some extra functionality, which will be outside the standard.
And all of these produce machine code, which is suitable for that machine.