A 37-year-old compiler is gaining support for a new language… although as that language is 57 years old, we are possibly stretching the adjective "new" more than our post-holiday waistband.

The next significant milestone was the development of the GNU C Compiler (GCC) in 1987. GCC was not only free but also outperformed many contemporary compilers, earning it swift adoption and ...

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 ...

Version 1.0 was released in May 1987. GCC once stood for GNU C Compiler, since it was used to compile programs written in the C programming language for Stallman's "GNU's Not Unix" (GNU ...

You shouldn't confuse it with another GNU project ... but it is not a true compiler: it translates COBOL source code into C ...

Much easier! We don’t think it is all that practical, but [nsommer] has an interesting post about loading up a C compiler and compiling Linux for a virtual machine. What’s different?

That’s not to say you can’t make a C compiler for any of them, but the tricks required to handle the odd word sizes, lack of stack manipulation, or whatever other reason C isn’t a good fit ...

vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, this security flaw was found in glibc's __vsyslog_internal() function, called by the widely-used syslog and vsyslog functions ...

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 ...