There was a time when you pretty much had to be an assembly language programmer to work with embedded systems. Yes, there have always been high-level languages available, but it took improvements ...

Major release of the open-source compiler collection also includes vectorization improvements and faster compiling of very large input files. GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15.1 has arrived with ...

Phoronix reports that the upcoming GCC 15 compiler for Linux will support Itanium processors. Initially, the plan was to remove Itanium IA-64 support from the GCC 15 compiler; however, an open ...

which you then compile with GCC or Microsoft Visual Studio C. Aside from the differences in how they generate code, the two ...

GCC offers an intermediate between assembly and standard C that can get you more speed and processor features without having to go all the way to assembly language: compiler intrinsics. This article ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...

It combines the acclaimed GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) with Windows-specific libraries to provide a comprehensive toolkit for programming in C, C++, and Fortran. Installing it on your Windows 11 ...

AMD has added support for its upcoming Zen 5 microarchitecture-based processors to the GCC compiler. Znver5 is now a target in the GCC Git repository until the stable release of GCC 14.1. This move ...

GCC, the premier free software compiler suite, has undergone many changes in the last few years. One change in particular, the merging of the tree-ssa branch, has made it much simpler to write a new ...