With GCC 15, the C compiler will default to C23 instead of C17, and the C++ compiler and standard library will start to get ...

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.

FOSS option – just don't confuse it with all the other Flangs The latest version of the LLVM compiler suite has promoted its ...

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 ...

The C programming language, born in the early 1970s, is still a pillar of contemporary technology. Its combination of ease, potency, and hardware control has ma ...

If you grew up with Unix systems like we did, you’ll be sorry to hear the news: vi, the noble text editor that has served us so well these 40 years, is going away — from many GNU/Linux systems ...

In some languages, such as C/C++, compiler directives as in the above examples are called preprocessor directives because they are handled before the actual compilation process. Pragmas are ...