1 <sect2><title>Contents of gcc-&gcc-contversion;</title>
3 <sect3><title>Program Files</title>
4 <para>c++, c++filt, cc (link to gcc), cc1, cc1plus, collect2, cpp, cpp0,
5 g++, gcc, gcov, protoize and unprotoize</para></sect3>
7 <sect3><title>Descriptions</title>
9 <sect4><title>cc, cc1, cc1plus, gcc</title>
10 <para>These are the C compiler. A compiler translates source code in
11 text format to a format that a computer understands. After a source code
12 file is compiled into an object file, a linker will create an executable
13 file from one or more of these compiler generated object files.</para></sect4>
15 <sect4><title>c++, cc1plus, g++</title>
16 <para>These are the C++ compiler; the equivalent of cc and
17 gcc etc.</para></sect4>
19 <sect4><title>c++filt</title>
20 <para>c++filt is used to demangle C++ symbols.</para></sect4>
22 <sect4><title>collect2</title>
23 <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
25 <sect4><title>cpp, cpp0</title>
26 <para>cpp pre-processes a source file, such as including
27 the contents of header files into the source file. It's a good idea to
28 not do this manually to save a lot of time. Someone just inserts a line
29 like #include <filename>. The preprocessor inserts the
30 contents of that file into the source file. That's one of the things a
31 preprocessor does.</para></sect4>
33 <sect4><title>gcov</title>
34 <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
36 <sect4><title>protoize</title>
37 <para>Optional additional program which converts old-style pre-ANSI
38 functions or definitions to new-style ANSI C prototypes. (default file
39 for looking known ones up is
40 <filename>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/<arch>/<version>/SYSCALLS.c.X</filename>)</para></sect4>
42 <sect4><title>unprotoize</title>
43 <para>Optional additional program which converts prototypes made by
44 protoize back to original old-style pre-ANSI (correct job only when
45 converted before with protoize)</para></sect4>
49 <sect3><title>Library Files</title>
50 <para>libgcc.a, libiberty.a, libstdc++.[a,so]</para>
52 <sect4><title>libgcc</title>
53 <para>libgcc.a is a run-time support file for gcc.Most of the time, on most
54 machines, libgcc.a is not actually necessary.</para></sect4>
56 <sect4><title>libiberty</title>
57 <para>libiberty is a collection of subroutines used by various GNU
58 programs including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.</para></sect4>
60 <sect4><title>libstdc++</title>
61 <para>libstdc++ is the C++ library. It is used by C++ programs and contains
62 functions that are frequently used in C++ programs. This way the
63 programmer doesn't have to write certain functions (such as writing a
64 string of text to the screen) from scratch every time he creates a
65 program.</para></sect4>