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The GNU Compiler Collection (usually shortened to GCC) is a set of programming language compilers produced by the GNU Project. It is free software distributed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) under the GNU GPL and GNU LGPL, and is a key component of the GNU toolchain. It is the standard compiler for the free software Unix-like operating systems, and certain proprietary operating systems derived from them such as Mac OS X.
Originally named the GNU C Compiler, because it only handled the C programming language, GCC was later extended to compile C++, Objective-C, Java, Fortran, and Ada among others.
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GCC was originally written by Richard Stallman in 1987 as the compiler for the GNU Project, in order to have a compiler available that was free software. Its development was closely shepherded by the Free Software Foundation. More on [ GNU Compiler Collection ]
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:08:25 -0400
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:23:27 -0400
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The Seattle Times: Business & Technology
Snowballing sell-off spreads worldwide
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:05:10 -0700
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August trade deficit falls to $59.1B
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The U.S. trade deficit edged down slightly in August, reflecting a drop in foreign oil from record levels. But the politically sensitive deficit with China increased as imports from that country hit an all-time high.
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:17:22 -0700
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NYT > Technology
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:38:00 -0000
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:31:00 -0000
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:38:17 -0000
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Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:19:00 -0400
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SpaceX Celebrates First Successful Rocket Launch
Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:53:00 -0400
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:38:19 -0000
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New media plan to combat Taleban
Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:06:40 -0000
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'Unbreakable' encryption unveiled
Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:50:46 -0000
A computer network protected by unbreakable quantum encryption is launched in Vienna.
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Tough times for tech
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Here's a roundup of the latest financial news and its impact on the tech sector.
GCC: GNU Compiler Collection - Developed by GNU project as free compiler for GNU system. Front ends: C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada; libraries for libstdc++, and libgcj. Mission, mail lists, timeline, contributors, committee, instructions, manual, FAQ, downloads, plans, bug reports. [Open Source, GPL]
GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit - Brings together the core development team of the GNU Compiler Collection with those working on the other toolchain components to discuss the state of the art.
ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) - By Scott Robert Ladd describes the application of ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) implements a genetic algorithm to the analysis of GNU C compiler optimization flags.
An Introduction to GCC - A printed tutorial for new users of GCC, published under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Meta Description: [ GCC tutorial - An Introduction to GCC by B. Gough available as a printed book (ISBN 0954161793), published by Network Theory Ltd ]
Benchmarking Intel C++ Against GNU GCC on Linux - Medium long review compares 2 compilers, some useful tables. GCC holds it own against Intel C++, wins some benchmarks it lost before. Intel still wins some. Differences are less. [Coyote Gulch Productions]
Building and Testing gcc/glibc cross toolchains - Script to automatically download, patch, build, and test binutils, gcc, and glibc cross-toolchains.
distcc - A gcc wrapper that speeds compilation by transparently distributing work across several machines. [Open source, GPL]
Meta Description: [ distcc is a fast, free distributed C and C++ compiler. ]
EGCS: Experimental GNU Compiler System - Project fused work on GNU C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, Fortran compilers, and libc++, to speed up work to improve GCC. In April 1999 was merged into general GCC effort under control of GCC steering committee. Descriptions, a few links.
First Annual GCC Developers' Summit - An opportunity for the core developers of all parts of the GNU Compiler Collection to get together with those from other portions of the Development tools community. May 25-27, 2003.
G++ FAQ - List of Frequently Asked Questions for G++ users.
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GCC FAQ - Frequently asked questions about GNU Compiler Collection.
GCC for the 6809 - GCC port for the Motorola 6809.
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GCC Myths and Facts - Optimizing GCC mostly for x86 CPU and C/C++, but parts can apply to all supported CPUs and languages. Many useful forum comments. [freshmeat.net]
Meta Description: [ freshmeat maintains the Web's largest index of Unix and cross-platform open source software. Thousands of applications are meticulously cataloged in the freshmeat database, and links to new code are added daily. ]
GCC Wiki - GCC info, structure, improvements quicklinks, people, history and links.
Meta Description: [ There is an IRC channel dedicated to GCC development at irc.oftc.net/#gcc. NOTE! This channel is exclusively dedicated to the development of GCC. Questions regarding usage of GCC will be generally ignored, and persistent offenders may be banned from the channel. ]
GCC XML Node Introspector Project - Project to create an XML interface to the GCC AST tree_nodes and store in Postgres Database.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
GHDL - A written in Ada95 GCC front-end. It is a VHDL simulator and implements nearly all VHDL87 and some features of VHDL93.
GNU Objective-C runtime features - Some notes about garbage collection and type information strings in the GNU Objective-C runtime (2.95.3 GCC version).
Meta Description: [ GNU Objective-C runtime features: Table of Contents ]
GNUDE: GNU Development Environment - Suite of GNU C/C++, Fortran, Java cross compilers, and Insight/GDB debugger hosted on Windows NT/2K/XP for embedded ARM7/9, XScale CPU program development. Assembler, compilers, linker, header files, STL, libraries, documents.
LWN: GCC gets a new Optimizer Framework - Artciel by Steven Bosscher and Diego Novillo. The first bits a major compiler internals overhaul have been merged into the development mainline of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for inclusion in the next release.
Making and using libraries - Guide work with libraries (.a files) in g++.
Migrating to gcc-3.4 - A collection of migration guides to help programmers updating their code to be gcc-3.4 compatible.
MinGW: Minimalist GNU for Windows - Compiler system uses GCC to produce Windows programs. Win32 ports of GCC, GDB, binutils to build native Win32 programs that rely on no 3rd party DLLs.
Meta Description: [ Home of MinGW -- Minimalist GNU for Windows -- project. Contains information about the MinGW runtime library and GNU/OSS development tools for MinGW. ]
OpenCOBOL - An experimental implementation of a COBOL frontend for GCC.
Meta Description: [ OpenCOBOL is an open-source COBOL compiler. ]
Optimizing GCC - How much faster can GCC compile a Linux kernel if GCC is optimized? Doing the compiler alone ups speed 33%. Description, benchmark times. [Linux Gazette]
Pentium Compiler Group - Founded late 1995 to enhance and support Pentium optimizing in GCC. GCC optimizes well, but the new x86 architecture needed different optimizing strategies. Descriptions, FAQs, downloads (source, binary), mirrors, links.
Meta Description: [ A freely available, highly optimizing compiler based on GNU cc (GCC).
Precompiled packages available for Linux, DJGPP, OS/2, FreeBSD, Solaris... ]
Pinapa - An open source SystemC front-end. It relies on GCC to parse the C++, and on the SystemC library itself to extract the architecture of the platform to analyze.
Meta Description: [ Pinapa is an open-source SystemC front-end.
You can download it from this page. ]
PL/1 for GCC - A PL/1 front-end for GNU Compiler Collection. It based on the syntax from IBM OS PL/I Version 2.
RHIDE - IDE for DJGPP and other GCC-based systems, by Robert Hoehne, Salvador Eduardo Tropea. Runs on DOS, Linux, looks like old Borland DOS IDE. Has project management, frontend to GCC C/C++, syntax highlighting, integrated debugger. [Open Source, GPL]
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