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As of version 4.8, GCC is implemented in C++. [30] Support for Cilk Plus existed from GCC 5 to GCC 7. [31] [32] GCC has been ported to a wide variety of instruction set architectures, and is widely deployed as a tool in the development of both free and proprietary software.
Mingw-w64 includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive manager), a set of freely distributable Windows specific header files and static import libraries for the Windows API, a Windows-native version of the GNU Project's GNU Debugger, and miscellaneous utilities.
Since GCC version 4.0.0, released in April 2005, [9] GFortran has replaced the older g77 compiler. The new Fortran front-end for GCC was rewritten from scratch, [10] after the principal author and maintainer of g77, Craig Burley, decided in 2001 to stop working on the g77 front end. [11]
It is the default back-end of GCC. It is used to assemble the GNU operating system and the Linux kernel, and various other software. It is a part of the GNU Binutils package. The GAS executable is named as, the standard name for a Unix assembler. GAS is cross-platform, and both runs on and assembles for a number of different computer architectures.
The GNU toolchain is a broad collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project.These tools form a toolchain (a suite of tools used in a serial manner) used for developing software applications and operating systems.
" Since GCC version 4.5, the stack must be aligned to a 16-byte boundary when calling a function (previous versions only required a 4-byte alignment.) I can not find this statement in the internet. Some related discussions here:
The major advantage of piggybacking GNU Pascal on the GCC compiler is that it is instantly portable to any platform the GCC compiler supports. However since GPC is a frontend, it does have to adapt if major changes are done to GCC (like a major new version).
In practice, Clang is a drop-in replacement for GCC. [24] Clang's developers aim to reduce memory footprint and increase compiling speed compared to other compilers, such as GCC. In October 2007, they report that Clang compiled the Carbon libraries more than twice as fast as GCC, while using about one-sixth GCC's memory and disk space. [25]