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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

8cc.vim is a C compiler that exists as pure Vimscript. Is it small? It sure is! How about fast? Absolutely not! Efficient? Also no. But does it work and is it neat? You betcha! Vimscript itself ...

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15 is moving forward as a planned update to the series, with a new front end for Cobol. The upgrade also is set to bring improvements to C and C++ development.

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

The Rust Coreutils have been released in version 0.1. This is an open-source reimplementation of the GNU Core Utilities, which are mainly written in C. They contain over 100 classic Unix command ...

Illumos is an OpenSolaris-derived Unix system, and no Unix is complete without a C compiler or two. And with a name like Portable C Compiler (PCC), you would think that would be a great bet to get ...