GNU Compiler Collection
optimizing compiler produced by the GNU Project, key component of the GNU tool-chain and standard compiler for most projects related to GNU and the Linux kernel. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The GNU Compiler Collection (also known as GCC) is a free software compiler written as part of the GNU project. It originally only compiled C code into machine language, however, now many frontends have been created to allow it to compile other languages.[4][5]
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As well as being the compiler for GNU, it is used by many other projects, most notably many Linux-based operating systems.
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Languages
GCC supports compiling the following programming languages:[6]
- C (using the original gcc frontend.)
- C++ (g++ frontend)
- Objective-C
- Objective-C++
- Fortran
- Ada
- Go (gccgo frontend)
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