What is compiler

Answer 1

Let's see if I can manage this..... (we had a good talk about this recently!)

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/403568/?ref=app

Answer 2

Compiler is a program that translates source code written in a programming language into executable instructions.

Answer 3

convert high level language program to machine understandable language(low level language)
also check code
if any error then report it

Answer 4

The computer prefers a string of 1's and 0's that mean very little to us, but can be very quickly and accurately understood by the computer. The original C++ program is called the "source code", and the resulting compiled code produced by thecompiler is usually called an "object file".