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The GNU Compiler Collection or GCC is a compiler and related auxiliary tools which are used to compile different programming languages into binary and related formats. GCC has been created and currently developed by the GNU Project. Also, the GCC name comes from the GNU as you have noticed. GCC is very popular in the … Read more
LLVM is a project which provides a collection of a modular compiler and toolchain software and technologies. The name “LLVM” is not an acronym that is different from other IT and Opensource projects. LLVM has started a research project at the University of Illinois in order to create a compiler and tool-chain which supports both … Read more
Source Code is a program code which is a text. In order to create applications and programs they should be coded and this code is called “source code”. Source code may change according to the application features, behavior, and programming language. An application can be created by using different programming languages and source code. Source … Read more
Binaries are created by building or compiling sources like C, C++, etc. In simple applications, we can build by using the compiler like GCC directly. But this is inconvenient if the application is big and has a lot of source code, configuration file, and build options. Developers generally prefer to build systems like make but … Read more
Patch is a command that is used to apply patch files to the files like source code, configuration. Patch files holds the difference between original file and new file. In order to get the difference or patch we use diff tool. Software is consist of a bunch of source code. The source code is developed by … Read more