Ideally, compilers can build a program for a wide variety of hardware without the need to change a single line of its source code. While there are exceptions and corner cases, this holds in the majority of cases. Which means that if the input code uses something that is not directly available on the hardware, the compiler has to figure out a way to effectively emulate those features. This might sound a little distant to our typical software development experiences, but I’m not even talking ...
