GCC(GNU Compiler Collection, version 4.6 was released a day ago) is a compiler available free under GPL by GNU Foundation. it is cross platform and is written using c/c++. Actually GCC has a major role in the growth of open source/Free Software world, in the past few years.

A majority of C/C++ programmers uses GCC, on Linux based operating systems as well as on Windows/Mac OS X. Since I uses Ubuntu 10.10 as my primary desktop; I know how important ,the gcc is, for programming Fun. GCC is mainly used as a compiler for C,C++,java,Fortran,Pascal,Ada,Objective-C.

A lot of extra features can be added with help of freely available plugins. GCC is one of the best compiler for c programmers.

Programming with gcc

New Features in GCC 4.6

  • Support for GO Programming Language has been added
  • New Optimizer Levels(-Ofast) has been introduced
  • Improvements in compiler time and Memory Usage
  • other platform specific improvements

GCC vs 4.6.0 has released(on March 25,2011). Go here for Complete details on the features of GCC.

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