Types of assemblers

Question

Describe the various types of assemblers known to you? Also describe its types.

Answer 1

Assembler is a program which receives the assembly language program as input and transforms it to the corresponding object program or machine code. It as well gives information to the loader. The assembler can be one of the given types:

a) Single pass assembler: When the assembly method can be done in one pass, it is termed as single pass or one-pass assembler.

b) Two-pass assembler: When the assembly is done in two passes, then it is termed as two-pass assembler.

c) Multi-pass assembler: The translation of assembly language can as well be completed in some passes. Such assemblers are termed as multi-pass assemblers.