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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]
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. Almost all open source software is built with GCC.
[March 15, 2005, 11:00]
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]
OpenMP And Automatic Parallelization In GCC
White Papers This paper describes the design and implementation of the OpenMP specification v2.5 in GCC. The implementation supports all the languages specified in the standard (C, C++ and Fortran), and it is generally available on any platform that supports...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Borland Kylix 3 Versus Linux GCC Development
White Papers This paper utilizes parametric modeling techniques to perform side-by-side comparisons of software development using Borland Kylix 3 versus Linux g++, the name sometimes used for the GNU C Compiler (GCC) when it is being used to compile C++ programs.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
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.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
LG GCC-4480B(Combo Drive) Firmware
Downloads The upgrade enhances the playability of CD-R media on your LG GCC-4480B(Combo Drive).
[May 14, 2003, 12:37]
Using The Generalized Cost Containment (GCC) Model
White Papers The Enterprise Impact Analysis is the heart of the Incident Management process. Unlike any threat-based risk assessment, this analysis focuses on the effects or impacts on an enterprise regardless of the cause.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
DEELX Regular Expression Engine
Downloads DEELX has a good compatibility that it can be compiled by Visual C++ 6.0, 7.1, 8.0(Windows), gcc(Cygwin), gcc(Linux), gcc(FreeBSD), Turbo C++ 3.0(DOS), C++ Builder(Windows). DEELX is coded using template, so char, wchar_t and other simple types can...
[November 9, 2006, 8:31]
Famed Open-source Compiler Gets A Face Lift
News At this point, GCC is so common you almost could use just GCC. On Monday, programmers released version 3.0 of GCC , a software project not as well-known as open-source projects such as Linux but one that's key to all of them.
[June 20, 2001, 9:32]
Linux Standard Improves C++ Support
News The Linux Standards Base (LSB) now offers improved support for C++, meaning that software compiled using the latest versions of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) can be run on any distribution that supports the standard.
[September 20, 2005, 16:55]
Itanium Allies Make Open Source Move
News Some of the $10bn (£5.8bn) in five years that members of the Itanium Solutions Alliance are spending on Itanium market and technology development will go to Itanium-specific improvements to the GCC. The ultimate goal is "to deliver a GCC compiler...
[March 13, 2006, 8:05]
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]
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]
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 Peter Glaskowsky, editor-in-chief of Microprocessor Report, said a company could get better benchmark results using a Dell machine with Intel and Microsoft compilers than with a Linux machine and GCC compiler.
[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]
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]
Sys Admins Get Their Day In The Sun
Talkback If it's difficult, you're not doing your job properly.man bash man perl man gcc A week of typing and auditing and I can spend every day in the sun. No compromise. Goodbye.www.openbsd.org
[July 31, 2004, 16:50]
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.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
