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GCC Info

• Development schedule

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Installing GCC

• LRA is now the default

• GCC plugins

• GFortran, the Fortran front-end

• Google's Summer of Code

• libstdc++, the C++ runtime library

User Information

• Proper C++ visibility support

• Math Optimization Flags

• Mudflap Pointer Debugging

• Building Cross Toolchains with gcc

• Software floating point

• Link Time Optimization Frequently Asked Questions

• Exploiting Link Time Optimization

• Offloading to (GPU) Accelerators

Events

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2024, September September 14-16, Prague, Czech Republic

• GCC devroom at FOSDEM 2024, February 3-4, Brussels, Belgium

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2023, September September 22-24, Cambridge, UK

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2022, September September 16-18, Prague, Czech Republic

• GNU Tools @ Linux Plumbers Conference 2021, September 20-23 2021, Videoconference

• GNU Tools @ Linux Plumbers Conference 2020, August 24-28 2020, Videoconference

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2019, September 12-15 2019, Montréal, Canada

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2018, September 7-9 2018, Manchester, UK

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2017, September 8-10 2017, Prague, Czech Repulic

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2016, September 9-11 2016, Hebden Bridge, UK

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2015, August 7-9 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2014, July 18-20 2014, Cambridge, UK

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2013, July 12-14 2013, Mountain View, California

• Essential Abstractions in GCC 2013, June 29 - July 03, 2013, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

• GNU Tools Cauldron 2012, July 9-11 2012, Prague, Czech Republic

• Essential Abstractions in GCC 2012, June 30 - July 03, 2012, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India

• GCC Gathering 2011, London, UK for the weekend of 17-Jun-2011

• GROW 2011, Apr. 2-3, Chamonix, France, co-located with CGO

Getting Started with GCC Development

• Tutorials, HOWTOs, internal documentation

• EasyHacks

• GCC Patch Tracking

• SVN Guide for GCC developers

• Accessing the GCC sources using Git

• Top-Level Bootstrap

• How to prepare a testcase

• A guide to testcase reduction

• Recording call-graphs with perf

• CompileFarm

Improving GCC

• Improvement Projects Home

• Directions for Graphite 4.8 and beyond

• GCC re-architecture project - Border Control

• GCC Spec 2017 Improvements

• irange Best Practices

Current Projects (alphabetical)

• Atomics

• Automatic parallelization

• Better Diagnostics

• Better Uninitialized Warnings

• Boring GCC (boringcc)

• BPF Back End

• C++ ABI Instrumentation

• C++11 Memory Model

• C++ Conversion

• C++ Coroutines

• C++ Modules

• C11 Atomics

• CC0 Transition

• Cilk Plus merge into mainline

• CLI Back-End and Front-End

• Early Generation of Debug Information

• Function Adaptation

• gcc-in-cxx - porting gcc to compile as C++

• Gimple Back End

• Gimple Front End

• Graphite

• IEEE 128-bit floating point support for PowerPC

• Incremental compiler

• Interactive Compilation Interface

• Just-In-Time Compilation (libgccjit.so)

• Lightweight IPO -- LIPO

• Loop Optimization Related Tasks

• Make C undefined overflow semantics explicit in the IL

• Expression Simplification Language

• Middle End Array Expressions

• Middle End Lisp Translator or MELT

• MILEPOST GCC - enabling research on machine-learning based self-tuning compilers

• Modeling Function Behavior for more aggressive optimizations across call sites

• Make GCC more modular

• Modulo Scheduling Related Tasks

• Object Oriented Programming in Fortran

• OpenACC

• OpenMP

• Pass Activity Log

• Parallelize GCC with Threads

• Pre-Parsed Headers

• Ranger - On-demand range generation

• Split Stacks

• SSA Register Pressure Reduction

• Static Analyzer (-fanalyzer)

• Python Front End

• Rust Front End

• Stdlib Performance Advisor

• Vectorization Related Tasks

Finished Projects (alphabetical)

• Alias Improvements

• Constexpr

• Compiler Plugins

• DataflowPorting

• Function Specific Optimization

• GIMPLE tuples

• GIT Conversion - Converting GCC's repository from SVN to GIT

• Link Time Optimization

• Flattening Memory Reference Trees in the GIMPLE IL

• Tightening GCC's Memory Model

• Using profile to drive optimizations

• Thread Safety Annotations and Analysis

• Transactional Memory

• Var Tracking Assignments for correct debug information

GCC Summit Proceedings

Proceedings of the GCC Summit:

• 2003 (Individual papers)

• 2004 (Individual papers)

• 2005

• 2006

• 2007

• 2008

• 2009

• 2010

GCC as a research compiler

• Notes for beginners

GCC Research Opportunities Workshop Proceedings

• GREPS-2007 (GREPS'07 website)

• GROW-2009 (GROW'09 website)

• GROW-2010 (GROW'10 website)

Miscellaneous

• History of GCC

• People

• Proposed C++ coding conventions

• Compiler comparison regarding volatile accesses

• GCC developer blogs

• GCC glossary and abbreviations and acronyms

• Deadly sins for a compiler writer

• Links

• ListOfCompilerBooks

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