GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection
The
GNU Compiler Collection is a full-featured ANSI C compiler with support
for K&R C, as well as C++, Objective C, Java, Objective C++,
Ada and Fortran.
GCC provides many levels of source code error checking
traditionally provided by other tools (such
as lint), produces debugging information, and can perform many
different optimizations to the resulting object code.
It is a portable compiler; it runs on most platforms available
today, and can produce output for many types of processors.
In addition to the processors used in personal computers, it also
supports microcontrollers, DSPs and 64-bit CPUs.
GCC is the most widely used compiler in Open Source
development.
GCC used to stand for the GNU C Compiler, but since the
compiler supports several
other languages aside from C, it now is an acronym for the GNU Compiler
Collection.
Key
features include:
- Native compiler
- Can also cross-compile any program, producing executable
files
for a different system from the one used by GCC itself
- Declared and synthesized properties
- Dot syntax
- Fast enumeration
- Optional protocol methods
- Method/protocol/class attributes
- Class extensions
- GNU Objective-C runtime API
- Multiple language frontends, for parsing different
languages including:
- C (gcc)
- C++ (g++)
- Java (gcj)
- Ada (GNAT)
- Objective-C (gobjc)
- Objective-C++ (gobjc++)
- Fortran (gfortran)
- Modula-2
- Modula-3
- Pascal (gpc)
- PL/I
- D (gdc)
- Mercury
- VHDL (ghdl)
- A modular design, allowing support for new languages and
architectures to be added
- Uses C++ as its implementation language
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