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Re: Compiler for gcc
- From: Michael Hope <michaelh at juju dot net dot nz>
- To: Harshal Jain <harshaldjain at gmail dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gnu dot org, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 09:15:39 +1200
- Subject: Re: Compiler for gcc
- References: <659790780908080516m4010fb6em1c62e87360ed2cf@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Harshal. I'm no expert, but GCC can be built by another C
compiler. If you have a look at how GCC builds you'll see that it
goes through a few stages - the first is where the local C compiler
builds a first version of GCC, and then this new version of GCC is
used to build itself. The same technique is used to build newer
versions of GCC. If your machine currently has GCC version 3 and you
want to build version 4 then the first step uses GCC 3 to build a
temporary version of GCC 4, and then this temporary version is used to
build the final version.
-- Michael
2009/8/9 Harshal Jain <harshaldjain@gmail.com>:
> As we know gcc is used 2 compile c programs n also gcc is used 2
> compile linux kernels also bt i wanted 2 know who is d compiler of
> gcc?
> means in which programming language compiler for gcc is written???
> --
> Regards ,
> Harshal Jain
>
> “UNIX is simple. ?It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.”
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