C program compilation flow

 Here is the brief summary of detail C program compilation process.

Source File (.c file)

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Preprocessing (Include all header file code in main source code, Expand all Macro and #define) (.i file)

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Compilation (Convert the program into assembly code) (.s file)

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Assembling (Convert the assembly code into machine code called object) (.obj or .o file)

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Linking  (Links different object file/module and system library together and create final executable object code) (.exe or .out file)