So those are in fact the patterns of zeroes and ones, the bytes that would have been outputted had I hello c remembered to download the compiler to this computer and run it on that little hello.c file.

这些都是0和1的模式，如果我记得下载编译器到计算机上的话,我们就能运行下这个,然后看看输出的字节。

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So, thankfully, C does provide a solution for this, whereby, I can provide a hint, essentially, to the compiler.

幸亏，C为这个提供了一个解决方案，那样，本质上，我可以给编译器一个提示。

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So C or the compiler's for C are kind of dumb, by definition of the language years ago, whereby, they only know about what they've already seen.

所以C或者C的编译器是有点愚蠢的，根据多年前这个语言的定义，凭借那个，他们只知道,他们所看到的。

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> What exactly is the difference with this system that we have here of compiling and say another compiler for one like the C++?

>在这个系统上编译,跟在我们这编译有什么不同吗？,也就是说，有没有其他的编译器供C++等语言使用？

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So you have to somehow convert the source code, the C code into 0s and 1s and for that process there exist this tool called a compiler that someone else wrote that takes this stuff as input and produces this stuff as output.

所以你必须把源代码，即C语言代码转换成二进制文件,这个过程就需要我们提到的编译器了,它是由别人编写的一个软件，以这些代码作为输入,将会产生的输出。

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