How does a compiler work?

I would like to know what goes on in the compilers, like gcc and rustc

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[Saptarshi Basu]

A compiler converts your written code into native machine code that is definitely using 0s and 1s and finally the code executes after your machine understands it. A interpreter also works similarly but it converts one line at a time!, and yeah these also picks you up at your syntax errors.
Hope this helped you!

[Rishit Khandelwal]

Yeah but how does it convert the code into binary?

[Saptarshi Basu]

machine code and binary are same things

[Rishit Khandelwal]

i know, but how does println!("Hello"); get converted to binary

[Saptarshi Basu]

then you should research more 'bout terminals and consoles

[Rishit Khandelwal]

But how are terminals and compilers related?