the Gcc

[Alexandre Oliva]

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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