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Re: the Gcc
- To: "chendyg" <chendyg at china dot com>
- Subject: Re: the Gcc
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 10 Jan 2001 22:58:03 -0200
- Cc: <gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <000e01c07aa4$385825a0$2e20a8c0@xlinux.com.cn>
On Jan 9, 2001, "chendyg" <chendyg@china.com> wrote:
> while doing gcc -v hello.c, I found it include the cc1 and collect2.
> could you tell me what it is.
cc1 is the actual C compiler (gcc is just a compilation driver).
collect2 is a front-end to the linker that collects a couple of
information before running the actual linker.
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