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GCC 4.0 Boosts Code Performance
News GCC was originally written by the Free Software Foundation (FSF) founder Richard Stallman and is the most popular compiler used by free-software developers. GCC 4.0, which was released last week, includes improvements to its optimiser, which apply...
[April 26, 2005, 13:05]
Famed Open-source Compiler Gets A Face Lift
News Indeed, GCC has spread as far as Microsoft, which ships the compiler as part of its Interix software, which enables Unix software to run on Windows computers. Now, though, because GCC accepts programs written in many other languages as well, GCC...
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
GCC Gets An Overhaul
News The entire realm of open source software could get a performance boost if all goes well with a plan to overhaul the GNU Compiler Collection — more commonly known as the GCC. GCC, which stands for GNU Compiler Collection, was one of the original...
[March 15, 2005, 11:00]
Itanium Allies Make Open Source Move
News The ultimate goal is "to deliver a GCC compiler optimised to support Itanium solutions", the Alliance and Gelato Federation said in a statement. Some of the $10bn (£5.8bn) in five years that members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance are spending on...
[March 13, 2006, 8:05]
Oracle Chooses Intel Compilers
News Oracle's decision goes against the grain of most Linux programming today, which uses the open-source GCC compiler. But for the heart of Linux, called the kernel, it's been difficult to compile software using anything other than GCC.
[May 8, 2003, 9:34]
Apple's 'fastest PC' Claim Scrutinised
News Apple's tests, which were conducted by third-party testing firm Veritest, used the same GCC compiler for both machines, with the Dell boxes running the Linux operating system. Critics charge that much higher benchmarks can be achieved using the...
[June 25, 2003, 7:33]
British TV Bans 'fastest' Mac G5
News Veritest used the same GCC compiler for both machines, with the Dell boxes running the Linux operating system, a move it says allows for the best comparison of hardware performance. Critics charged that higher benchmarks can be achieved using the...
[November 12, 2003, 9:50]
Wine Development Stifled By Software Patent
News Concerns about the Borland patent have prevented developers on the GCC project from adding structured exception handling (SEH) to the free software compiler. From a long term perspective, this is a problem because it means GCC is not even an option...
[May 13, 2005, 10:05]
Dangerous Flaw In Lib CGI
News All in all, I consider the sources of this compiler problem to be credible and am recommending that anyone using C compilers, especially GCC, take a serious look at this reported risk, since it could pose a security threat to the work of any C...
[December 17, 2002, 11:14]
Linux: A Chipmaker's Best Friend
News The Intel compiler is fine for some, but most Linux developers use GCC , known more for its support of many languages and chips than for its optimisation for any particular technology. The Linux compiler for Hammer is "pretty much done", Malone...
[September 3, 2001, 8:41]
Migration Of Credit Analysis System Of A Major Financial Institution
White Papers The financial institution was facing challenge as the gcc compiler is stricter than sun cc compiler e.g. Sun CC was allowing the code to access protected members directly Endian issues, Intel is little endian where as SPARC is big-endian machine.
[April 24, 2007, 1:00]
Porting GCC And Binutils To Windows CE
White Papers Earlier this year, Vitaliy Pronkin, a young Russian programmer, launched a project to port the open source GCC C/C++ compiler and supporting tools (library, manager, linker, etc.to Windows CE and the Pocket PC platform.
[June 5, 2004, 1:03]
Developers Squashing GCC 4.0 Bugs
News Programmers are working to debug and speed performance of the newly released GCC 4.0, the compiler at the foundation of the open source and free-software movements. Lead programmer Mark Mitchell released GCC 4.0 on 22 April, and it includes a new...
[May 9, 2005, 17:25]
Neuron Developer Studio
Downloads Edit, build and debug C/C++ programs using free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, CYGWIN and MinGW GNU Gcc or Intel 8.0 compiler. Support for multiple compiler configurations. Rebuild existing DSW and DSP projects using new 7.0 compiler.
[May 17, 2005, 18:32]
Neuron Visual C++
Downloads Edit, build and debug C and C++ programs using the free Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003, CYGWIN and MinGW GNU Gcc or Intel 8.0 compiler. Build your existing Visual Studio 6 DSW and DSP projects with the new 7.0 compiler.
[May 17, 2005, 18:46]
Xcode
Downloads At the heart of Xcode 2.4.1 is a graphical workbench that tightly integrates a syntax-highlighting text editor, a robust build control system, a debugger, and the powerful GCC compiler capable of targeting both Intel and PowerPC regardless of host...
[May 16, 2007, 20:30]
The GNU 64-Bit PL8 Compiler: Toward An Open Standard Environment For Firmware Development
White Papers This paper reports on the extension of PL8 to support 64-bit addressing, its implementation as a GCC front end, and the validation of the new compiler. However, the firmware address space of today's zSeries servers may exceed 2 GB, raising the need...
[March 30, 2005, 3:00]
Accelerating One Of The World's Fastest Databases
White Papers The MySQL AB engineers benchmarked code compiled by the GNU C Compiler (GCC) and the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux on Pentium 4 and Itanium 2 processor-based systems. Because of the versatility of the Intel C++ Compiler, the MySQL AB engineering...
[December 14, 2004, 23:00]
Enhancing Open Source Performance On Linux
White Papers The benchmark tested code compiled by the GNU C compiler (gcc) and the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux on Pentium 4 and Itanium 2 processor-based systems. Persistent Systems, provides end-to-end business integration solutions.
[December 15, 2004, 2:00]
Will New Chip Perk Up Embedded Red Hat?
News The software includes the GCC compiler, the crucial utility that converts people's programs written in high-level languages into instructions the chip can understand. GCC, like Linux, is an open-source project, meaning that anyone can use, change...
[February 14, 2002, 9:08]
