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CH03.fm Page 45 Monday, October 7, 2002 8:33 PM<br />
Introduction to GNU C <strong>and</strong> C++ Compilers 45<br />
•C<br />
• C++<br />
•Fortran<br />
• Objective C<br />
•Java<br />
Front-end preprocessors for many other languages also exist for GCC. For example, you<br />
can use a Pascal language front end with GCC.<br />
C is the primary language <strong>and</strong> GCC supports ANSI/ISO st<strong>and</strong>ards put forward in 1989-90<br />
<strong>and</strong> 1995-96. <strong>The</strong>se st<strong>and</strong>ards are also sometimes called C90 <strong>and</strong> C95, respectively. Another<br />
revision of the ANSI/ISO C language st<strong>and</strong>ard was made in 1999 (known as C99), <strong>and</strong> GCC<br />
does not yet fully support this revision. You can find out the current status of support for this<br />
revision at http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/c99status.html.<br />
Support for these variations in st<strong>and</strong>ards can be selected using comm<strong>and</strong> line switches<br />
when compiling programs. For example, to compile programs according to original 1989-90<br />
st<strong>and</strong>ards, you can use one of the following comm<strong>and</strong> line switches:<br />
-ansi<br />
-std=c89<br />
-std=iso9899:1990<br />
<strong>The</strong> GCC compiler supports Objective C source code. Information on Objective C can be<br />
found in different books <strong>and</strong> online resources. However there is no st<strong>and</strong>ard for Objective C yet.<br />
Later in this chapter you will learn how to compile a simple program written in Objective C.<br />
GCC supports GNU Fortran language <strong>and</strong> we shall discuss later in this chapter how to<br />
compile programs written in Fortran.<br />
Support for Java is a new addition to GCC <strong>and</strong> we shall see how GCC h<strong>and</strong>les Java code<br />
with the GCJ compiler. This compiler, which is a part of the GCC family of compilers, can create<br />
an executable object from Java source code files.<br />
St<strong>and</strong>ard libraries are not part of the GCC compiler. You have to separately install libraries.<br />
<strong>The</strong> most common library used with the compiler is the GNU C library <strong>and</strong> we shall see how<br />
to get <strong>and</strong> install this library on <strong>Linux</strong> systems. <strong>The</strong> GNU C library (also known as glibc) provides<br />
support for:<br />
• ANSI/ISO C<br />
•POSIX<br />
•BSD<br />
• System V<br />
• X/Open<br />
For more information on languages supported by GCC, please see http://gcc.gnu.org/<br />
onlinedocs/gcc-3.0.2/gcc_2.html.
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