Older CPUs and some fairly modern microcontrollers are not made to readily support C compilers. Among those are the 1802, some 8-bit PICs, and the 6502 at the heart of the Commodore 64. That’s not to ...

If you are writing a hello world program, you probably aren’t too concerned about how the compiler translates your source code to machine code. However, if your code runs on something that people’s ...

Though you can write "C" code in Notepad, you must have a C compiler, such as the compiler included with the Microsoft Visual Studio development suite, to compile the code. To write a C code file in ...

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, analog and Flash-IP solutions, announced from DESIGN West in San Jose, Calif., MPLAB® XC—its simplified line of C compilers that ...

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 ...

Support for multi-threading acceleration for CPUs with multiple physical cores is provided by the CacheQ Compiler which takes a single-threaded C code and generates executable that can run on CPUs, ...

With AdaCore’s latest GNAT Pro Ada compiler, it’s now possible to generate C source code using its Common Code Generator (CCG). This is designed to provide portability to the vast majority of ...

Mountain View, Calif., June 13, 2001 BOPS, Inc., a leading provider of programmable broadband DSP cores, today announced that EEMBC Certification Laboratories (ECL), the independent benchmarking ...

Have you ever thought of writing your own compiler? There are a number of good reasons to do this. It's incredibly educational and can be useful. It can solve problems and produce abstractions that ...

Download the PDF of this article. C and C++ compilers tend not to be sexy, but they’re used to build the embedded infrastructure from the cloud down to motor control systems. They compile the code for ...