it is necessary to retranslate the user's program deck every time it is run.
it is very difficult to handle multiple segments, especially if the source programs are in different languages, and to produce orderly modular programs.
None of these
a portion of memory is wasted because the core occupied by the assembler is unavailable to the object program.
to recognize the major constructs of the language and to call the appropriate action routines that will generate the intermediate form or matrix for these constructs.
None of these
to build a literal table and an identifier table
to parse the source program into the basic elements or tokens of the language.