GCC

GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection. It is a compiler system licensed under the GPL and is part of the GNU toolchain. Originally, it stood for GNU C Compiler because it could only compile C, but it has since gained support for various languages.

GCC is ubiquitous in GNU/Linux systems and is very often used to compile the Linux kernel. It is one of the most mature compiler suites available today.

Supported languages

• C
• C++
• Objective-C
• Objective-C++
• Fortran
• Java
• Ada
• Go
• Pascal

See Also:

• clang