gcc behind the scenes

[Sunzir Deepur]

On 5/20/07, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@sygehus.dk> wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:58:30PM +0300, Sunzir Deepur wrote:
> > 1. the driver is not calling cpp. why is that ? isn't there a preprocessing
> >   stage ?
>
>   It has been integrated into cc1 for several years. IIRC to provide better
> error messages and to speed up compilation.

cc1 - is it part of the GCC ? or is it something that has been done
by my Linux distribution ?

> > 2. the linker binary is actually called collect2 and not ld.
>
>   The linker is ld, collect2 is just a helper program. Please see
> <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/Initialization.html>, in
> particular the last bit, for the explanation.

Thank You !!
sunzir