iption</a>)
needs no assembler pass in the usual pipeline.
Instead, the compiler emits a kind of incompletely defined instruction set, in binary form, which the linker
then completes.
In particular, the linker does instruction selection, so when you see an instruction like <code>MOV</code>
what the linker actually generates for that operation might not be a move instruction at all, perhaps a clear or load.
Or it might correspond exactly to the machine instruction with that name.
In general, machine-specific