Gnu Reference (Using and Porting the GNU Compiler Collection

by Richard M. Stallman

GCC is an integral part of the GNU Project, aiming to improve the compiler used in the GNU system, including the GNU/Linux variant. The GCC development effort uses an open development environment and supports many other platforms in order to foster a world-class, optimizing compiler, to attract a larger team of developers, to ensure that GCC and the GNU system work on multiple architectures and diverse environments, and to more thoroughly test and extend the features of GCC.

This special iUniverse edition comprises Volume 2 of a three-volume set, all based on the text "Using and Porting the GNU Compiler Collection," as published online and in print form by the Free Software Foundation. The document is provided in three separate volumes for your convenience.

Volume 1: GCC Command Options

Volume 2: Reference

Volume 3: Target Description Macros

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First published July 1, 1999

About the author

Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. In 1983 he announced the project to develop the GNU operating system, a Unix-like operating system meant to be entirely free software, and has been the project's leader ever since. With that announcement Stallman also launched the Free Software Movement. In October 1985 he started the Free Software Foundation.

The GNU/Linux system, which is a variant of GNU that also uses the kernel Linux developed by Linus Torvalds, are used in tens or hundreds of millions of computers, and are now preinstalled in computers available in retail stores. However, the distributors of these systems often disregard the ideas of freedom which make free software important.

That is why, since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time in political advocacy for free software, and spreading the ethical ideas of the movement, as well as campaigning against both software patents and dangerous extension of copyright laws. Before that, Stallman developed a number of widely used software components of the GNU system, including the original Emacs, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU symbolic debugger (gdb), GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system.

Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, and is the main author of the GNU General Public License, the most widely used free software license.

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