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The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C , C++ , Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran , Ada, Go, D, Modula-2, COBOL, Rust, and Algol 68 as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++,...). GCC was originally written as the compiler for the GNU operating system . The GNU system was developed to be 100%…

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GCC 5.1 released

Command-line optimization and target options are now streamed on a per-function basis and honored by the link-time optimizer. This change makes link-time optimization a more transparent replacement of per-file optimizations. It is now possible to build projects that require different optimization settings for…

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GCC 5.2 released

Command-line optimization and target options are now streamed on a per-function basis and honored by the link-time optimizer. This change makes link-time optimization a more transparent replacement of per-file optimizations. It is now possible to build projects that require different optimization settings for…

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GCC 4.8 release

GCC now uses C++ as its implementation language. This means that to build GCC from sources, you will need a C++ compiler that understands C++ 2003. For more details on the rationale and specific changes, please refer to the C++ conversion page.