GCC / GNU C Compiler for Not Yet Techies

"Computer Careers: Using this Open Source Compiler to Produce the Same Program for Six Different Language Platforms"

by Richard Stooker, President Info Ring Press and author of Secrets of Changing to a Computer Career

GCC stands for Gnu Compiler Collection and is an open source software application that enables you to compile the same software program to six different major programming languages. GCC can be used on almost all computing platforms.

Richard Stallman founded the Gnu Project to promote open source software in 1984. He is also the author of GCC.

A compiler is a software program that acts as a translator. It takes the high level computer program written by the programmer and transforms it into binary code that a computer can read and act on. Most compilers are proprietary -- that is, they're owned by the company that created them, especially when that's the same company that created the programming language or environment. For example, the Java Development Kit is a compiled for Java that was created by Sun Microsystems, the owner of Java.

Compilers have two sections: the front end and the back end. The front end reads the high level computer language and converts it into Register Transfer Language / RTL, the central point of the process. The back end turns that into machine-specific native code.

GCC works because of these two parts

The back end of GCC can compile the results of the front end into: C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Java and Ada.

C is the fundamental language of GCC, and the preprocessor of it is CPP.

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