Internals of GCC


This podcast is called “Internals of GCC” and I’m going to talk about everything that is said in this podcast and give a brief opinion of it, a student in the verge of graduate, I have used the C or C++ programming languages in some classes, and each and every time I have used the command “gcc”, this is basically a compiler which is used to compile languages like ADA or C and C++, many people just use the command because they are taught to but it is interesting to know that it is more than just a command, GCC basically provides the infrastructure needed to build whatever you need and this is something that Morgan Deters, the guest in the podcast tells us while explaining everything. In a small parenthesis Morgan Deters seems like a very interesting person and I envy the knowledge that he has and can only hope to have as much knowledge in something someday.

Morgan Deters explains us in the podcast that GCC is a small portable compiler, which makes it perfect for our use (as I have spoken about before), this means that it can produce many outputs for different types of processors in which the compiler is used, GCC also is known to be a native compiler and this means that GCC that can be used to cross compile any program different from GCC or the languages it supports. This ability that GCC has allows the use of GCC to compile in embedded systems, theses systems are usually not able to run a compiler by themselves, so this gives a lot of value to the use and capacities of GCC.

As you can read GCC is a great tool at our disposal and it is great to know more about something that we have used a lot while being students

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