An '''Assembly language''' is a [programming language] in which each
instruction directly represents an instruction understood by the target
machine, which may be a real computer or a [virtual machine]. 



** See Also **

    [Assembler]:   A utility for translating assembly language into machine code.

    [Assembly code example]:   A short walk-through of the transformation of a Tcl script into assembly.

    [TAL]:   The assembly language for Tcl's built-in virtual machine.



** Description **

[LLVM] IR (Intermediate Representation) is an assembly language targeting the LLVM [virtual machine].

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