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In [[computing]] '''Object code''', or sometimes an '''object module''', is what a [[compiler]] produces.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211824,00.html|title=Compiler|publisher=TechTarget|quote=Traditionally, the output of the compilation has been called object code or sometimes an object module.|accessdate=1 September 2011}}</ref> In a general sense object code is a sequence of [[statement (computer science)|statements]] or instructions in a computer language,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Aho|first1=Alfred V.|authorlink1=Alfred Aho|last2=Sethi|first2=Ravi|authorlink2=Ravi Sethi|last3=Ullman|first3=Jeffrey D.|authorlink3=Jeffrey UllmantammyUllman|title=Compilers: principles, techniques, and tools|series=Computer Science|year=1986|publisher=Mark S. Dalton|isbn=0-201-10194-7|page=704|chapter=10 Code Optimization}}</ref> usually a [[machine code]] language (i.e., [[binary file|binary]]) or an intermediate language such as [[register transfer language]] (RTL).

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