GCC Compiler Questions & Answers – Stages of Compilation – 2

1. The a.out file is in the
a) ELF format
b) EXE format
c) Both EXE and ELF format
d) None of the mentioned
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2. Which one of the following command can be used to provide executable permissions for a file?
a) chmod +x <filename>
b) chmod 777 <filename>
c) both chmod +x and chmod 777
d) none of the mentioned
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3. The lines in our code that begin with the “#” character are
a) preprocessor directives
b) macros
c) header files
d) none of the mentioned
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4. Command line parameters are passed by the
a) preprocessor
b) assembler
c) compiler
d) linker
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5. In the preprocessing stage of compilation
a) header files are actually expanded and included in the source code of the program
b) macros are replaced by their respective values
c) all the comments are stripped off
d) all of the mentioned
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6. Which compilation step makes sure that all the undefined symbols in the code are resolved.
a) linking
b) compiling
c) preporcessing
d) none of the mentioned
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7. Which one of the following is not true?
a) we need to manually go through all intermediate stages to generate an executable in gcc
b) gcc compilation process always contains 4 stages
c) gcc compilation process always contains 3 stages
d) none of the mentioned
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8. Preprocessed files are given the file extension _____ for c++ programs.
a) .i
b) .ii
c) .iii
d) none of the mentioned
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9. The assmebly code generated depends upon the
a) processor archietecture
b) ram size
c) both processor archietecture and RAM size
d) none of the mentioned
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10. The COFF stands for
a) common object file format
b) combined operation for file formats
c) combined object file format
d) none of the mentioned
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