 Pentium Compiler Group - http://www.goof.com/pcg/ Founded late 1995 to enhance and support Pentium optimizing in GCC. GCC optimizes well, but the new x86 architecture needed different optimizing strategies. Descriptions, FAQs, downloads (source, binary), mirrors, links. |
 GHDL - http://ghdl.free.fr/ A written in Ada95 GCC front-end. It is a VHDL simulator and implements nearly all VHDL87 and some features of VHDL93. |
 Building and Testing gcc/glibc cross toolchains - http://kegel.com/crosstool/ Script to automatically download, patch, build, and test binutils, gcc, and glibc cross-toolchains. |
 Migrating to gcc-3.4 - http://kegel.com/gcc/gcc3.4.html A collection of migration guides to help programmers updating their code to be gcc-3.4 compatible. |
 LWN: GCC gets a new Optimizer Framework - http://lwn.net/Articles/84888/ Artciel by Steven Bosscher and Diego Novillo. The first bits a major compiler internals overhaul have been merged into the development mainline of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for inclusion in the next release. |
 GNU Objective-C runtime features - http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/objc-features_toc.html Some notes about garbage collection and type information strings in the GNU Objective-C runtime (2.95.3 GCC version). |
 EGCS: Experimental GNU Compiler System - http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/egcs-1.1/ Project fused work on GNU C, C++, Objective-C, Ada, Fortran compilers, and libc++, to speed up work to improve GCC. In April 1999 was merged into general GCC effort under control of GCC steering committee. Descriptions, a few links. |
 GCC: GNU Compiler Collection - http://gcc.gnu.org/ Developed by GNU project as free compiler for GNU system. Front ends: C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, Ada; libraries for libstdc++, and libgcj. Mission, mail lists, timeline, contributors, committee, instructions, manual, FAQ, downloads, plans, bug reports. [Open Source, GPL] |
 Writing a GCC Front End - http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7884 By Tom Tromey. This article provides a tour of how you would go about connecting your own compiler front end to GCC. |
 Optimization in GCC - http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7269 By M. Tim Jones. Here's what the O options mean in GCC, why some optimizations aren't optimal after all and how you can make specialized optimization choices for your application. [Linux Journal] |
 RHIDE - http://www.rhide.com/ IDE for DJGPP and other GCC-based systems, by Robert Hoehne, Salvador Eduardo Tropea. Runs on DOS, Linux, looks like old Borland DOS IDE. Has project management, frontend to GCC C/C++, syntax highlighting, integrated debugger. [Open Source, GPL] |
 GCC for the 6809 - http://www.oddchange.com/gcc6809/ GCC port for the Motorola 6809. |
 distcc - http://distcc.samba.org/ A gcc wrapper that speeds compilation by transparently distributing work across several machines. [Open source, GPL] |
 GCC Myths and Facts - http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/730/ Optimizing GCC mostly for x86 CPU and C/C++, but parts can apply to all supported CPUs and languages. Many useful forum comments. [freshmeat.net] |
 ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) - http://www.coyotegulch.com/products/acovea/ ACOVEA (Analysis of Compiler Options via Evolutionary Algorithm) implements a genetic algorithm to the analysis of GNU C compiler optimization flags. |
 Linux C and C++ Compilers - http://www.coyotegulch.com/reviews/linux_compilers/index.html Medium long review compares 2 compilers, some useful tables. GCC holds its own against Intel C++, wins some benchmarks it lost before. Intel still wins some. Differences are less. [Coyote Gulch Productions] |
 D Front End for GCC - http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/ For GCC 3.3.x, 3.4.x versions supporting FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin. Description, build instructions, downloads, links, contact. [Open source] |
 GNUDE: GNU Development Environment - http://gnude.sourceforge.net/ Suite of GNU C/C++, Fortran, Java cross compilers, and Insight/GDB debugger hosted on Windows NT/2K/XP for embedded ARM7/9, XScale CPU program development. Assembler, compilers, linker, header files, STL, libraries, documents. |
 GCC XML Node Introspector Project - http://sourceforge.net/projects/introspector Project to create an XML interface to the GCC AST tree_nodes and store in Postgres Database. |
 Pinapa - http://greensocs.sourceforge.net/pinapa/ An open source SystemC front-end. It relies on GCC to parse the C++, and on the SystemC library itself to extract the architecture of the platform to analyze. |
 PL/1 for GCC - http://pl1gcc.sourceforge.net/ A PL/1 front-end for GNU Compiler Collection. It based on the syntax from IBM OS PL/I Version 2. |
 G++ FAQ - http://www.jcu.edu.au/docs/gnu/g++FAQ.html List of Frequently Asked Questions for G++ users. |
 Optimizing GCC - http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue88/piszcz.html How much faster can GCC compile a Linux kernel if GCC is optimized? Doing the compiler alone ups speed 33%. Description, benchmark times. [Linux Gazette] |
 MinGW: Minimalist GNU for Windows - http://www.mingw.org/ Compiler system uses GCC to produce Windows programs. Win32 ports of GCC, GDB, binutils to build native Win32 programs that rely on no 3rd party DLLs. |
 Making and using libraries - http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/ug/larger/archives.html Guide work with libraries (.a files) in g++. |
 An Introduction to GCC - http://www.network-theory.co.uk/gcc/intro/ A printed tutorial for new users of GCC, published under the GNU Free Documentation License. |
 GNU C Compiler Internals Wikibook - http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GNU_C_Compiler_Internals This is a wikibook describing internals of GNU C Compiler Collection. A number of authors have contributed to it. |
 GCC & GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit - http://www.gccsummit.org/ Brings together the core development team of the GNU Compiler Collection with those working on the other toolchain components to discuss the state of the art. |
 First Annual GCC Developers' Summit - http://www.gccsummit.org/2003/ An opportunity for the core developers of all parts of the GNU Compiler Collection to get together with those from other portions of the Development tools community. May 25-27, 2003. |
 DaLSoft - http://www.dalsoft.com/ Optimizer for gcc generated x86 code. Lists results of optimizations, compares performance of the optimizer-generated code with performance of the code generated by gcc and icc x86 compilers. |
 GNU ARM - http://www.gnuarm.com/ Toolchain in binary and source formats for several operating systems. Also includes reference material and links for embedded programming using the ARM CPU. |