jonyzz

I googled this - define: native code, so there were two results:

- Native code refers to programs that are written in another language other than Java, such as assembler or C++.

- A system of codes directly understandable by a computer's CPU is termed this CPU's native or machine language.

So what do you think ? How should I understand it ? Is it the assembler, the machine language, the environment language ... ?

InfoGeek

Not the programs themselves, but the Object Code generated from assembler or C++ programs.

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Simon Gray

^ or other programming languages but that is the correct definition.

Another definition for native code (which should only be even more confusing) is code that is compiled for and is running on a specified platform, then it's native. To elaborate: It's possible to run some Windows programs on Linux using Wine for example, but the "code" is not native, it calls a fictive Windows API which Wine is the placeholder for.

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DaWei

I don't know where you got the first definition, but you shouldn't go back there.

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jim mcnamara

Native code = machine language

For example, the opcodes (seen as numbers) in Intel 386 code.