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Compiler converts source code into assembly code.

Assembler converts assembly code into object code.

An assembler creates object code by translating assembly instruction mnemonics into opcodes, and by resolving symbolic names for memory locations and other entities

Steps
1)source file(ex:-test.c)
|(preprocessor inserts all # files)
|
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2)preprocessed file (test.i)
|(compiler converts source code to assembly code
| ie MOV,JMP,XOR etc and converts .i file to .s file)
|
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3)relocatable binary
|(in other word called as object file
| it converts .s file to .o file format)
|
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4)linking is done
|(done by the linker its function includes
|1.instruction relocation :-mapping all the instruction
|to relocatable absolute address
|2.procedure relocation :-every fn. in source refers to
|specific address procedure list.
|3.provides platform specific runtime code into executable
|file)
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.exe file is obtained.
So the correct answer is assembler.

It's assembler because assembler is a program that converts the source program written by user into object program or machine program.

What does comparator and interpreter stands for?

Assembler is the program which takes assembly language code as an input and at output generates its corresponding machine code. So assembler is the correct answer.

Assembler processes various op-code and operands from various tables through various passes. Assembler are of 1 pass, 2 pass, etc. So its assembler nilesh.

Please don't confuse among these terms.

Compiler converts high level language into intermediate or assembly language.

And interpreter converts intermediate language (not assembly language) into low level language or machine level language.

@Nilesh

No buddy. The given answer is correct.

Compiler: Converts High-Level language into Machine-Code. (Ex: C, C++)
Assembler: Assembly code to Machine-Code.(Ex: ASM)

Its the compiler. Plzz check it.