GCC Technical Reference Manual

Author: Griffith
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: In this book, computer consultant Arthur Griffith provides extensive information on the important open-source software—GCC, covering the technical details of deploying class software for GCC on various platforms and languages. The book is divided into three parts, explaining the command-line options for each language, detailing how to successfully integrate multiple languages to develop applications, summarizing the usage of various tool software, and exploring some inspiring new programming methods that may be achievable, as well as the functionality added to GCC for converting Java code. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1, "Free Software Compiler," introduces the basics of compilation and provides instructions for downloading and installing compilers. Part 2, "Compiler Collection Usage," includes detailed explanations of compiler commands, with a chapter dedicated to each of the six main programming languages. There is also a special chapter describing preprocessors and the techniques for linking object files generated by different languages. Part 3, "Peripherals and Internals," covers linking, debugging, cross-compilation, make culture, and the GNU assembler. Part 3 also includes information on the internal workings of the compiler frontend and backend.