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Development Environment

  • gcc
    several versions of the compiler (C, C++, Objective C, Fortran, Java) are integrated in a set and this is why people use the name GCC or "GNU Compiler Collection". GCC can compile programs written in any of these languages. The Fortran and Java compilers are described in separate manuals.

    When you invoke GCC, it normally does preprocessing, compilation, assembly and linking. The "overall options" allow you to stop this process at an intermediate stage. For example, the `-c' option says not to run the linker. Then the output consists of object files output by the assembler.



    Please consult the man page for gcc.

  • gdb is the GNU Project debugger, allows you to see what is going on `inside' another program while it executes - or what another program was doing at the moment it crashed.


    1. Start your program, specifying anything that might affect its behavior.
    2. Make your program stop on specified conditions.
    3. Examine what has happened, when your program has stopped.

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