The GNU Compiler Collection will be refreshed with updated C++ standards compliance and improvements in parallelism and diagnostics. Described as a “major” release, GCC 6.1 leverages the C++ 14 ...

Programmers release version 3.0 of GCC, a software project not as well-known as open-source projects such as Linux but one that's key to all of them. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

The OpenSSL project is seeking to go ahead with a change of licence to the Apache Licence Version 2.0 but the way it is doing so appears to have riled up some contributors.

If you use Linux at all (and in many cases these days, even if you don’t), you have heard of the open source Linux compiler called GNU Compiler Collection, or GCC for short. It’s the most common ...

The GNU C Compiler – GCC – was first released in 1987. 36 years ago. Several version streams are still actively being developed and enhanced, with GCC13 being the most advanced, and a GCC v10.5 ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...