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| 7 |  | 
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-system-gcc" role="wrap"> | 
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="gcc.html"?> | 
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| 10 |  | 
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| 11 | <title>GCC-&gcc-version;</title> | 
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| 12 |  | 
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| 13 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc"> | 
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| 14 | <primary sortas="a-GCC">GCC</primary> | 
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| 15 | </indexterm> | 
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| 16 |  | 
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| 17 | <sect2 role="package"> | 
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| 18 | <title/> | 
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| 19 |  | 
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| 20 | <para>The GCC package contains the GNU compiler collection, which includes | 
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| 21 | the C and C++ compilers.</para> | 
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| 22 |  | 
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| 23 | </sect2> | 
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| 24 |  | 
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| 25 | <sect2 role="installation"> | 
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| 26 | <title>Installation of GCC</title> | 
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| 27 |  | 
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| 28 | <para os="p1">The following patch contains a number of updates to the | 
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| 29 | &gcc-version; branch by the GCC developers:</para> | 
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| 30 |  | 
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| 31 | <screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen> | 
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| 32 |  | 
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| 33 | <para os="p3">The following patch contains a number architecture and fixes related to | 
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| 34 | our build &gcc-version;. This patch was developed by CLFS devs For details on | 
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| 35 | what's in the patch, look at http://trac.cross-lfs.org/browser/scripts/patch/gcc/&gcc-version;:</para> | 
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| 36 |  | 
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| 37 | <screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&gcc-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen> | 
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| 38 |  | 
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| 39 | <para os="d">Apply a <command>sed</command> substitution that will suppress the | 
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| 40 | installation of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename>. The | 
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| 41 | version of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename> provided by | 
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| 42 | Binutils will be used instead:</para> | 
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| 43 |  | 
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| 44 | <screen os="e"><userinput>sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //' libiberty/Makefile.in</userinput></screen> | 
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| 45 |  | 
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| 46 | <para os="f">The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source | 
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| 47 | directory in a dedicated build directory:</para> | 
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| 48 |  | 
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| 49 | <screen os="g"><userinput>mkdir -v ../gcc-build | 
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| 50 | cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen> | 
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| 51 |  | 
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| 52 | <para os="h">Prepare GCC for compilation:</para> | 
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| 53 |  | 
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| 54 | <screen os="i"><userinput>CC="gcc -Wl,-rpath-link,/lib -isystem /usr/include" \ | 
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| 55 | CXX="g++ -Wl,-rpath-link,/lib -isystem /usr/include" \ | 
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| 56 | ../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \ | 
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| 57 | --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix \ | 
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| 58 | --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-c99 --enable-long-long \ | 
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| 59 | --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++ \ | 
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| 60 | --disable-multilib --disable-libstdcxx-pch</userinput></screen> | 
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| 61 |  | 
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| 62 | <para os="j">Compile the package:</para> | 
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| 63 |  | 
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| 64 | <screen os="k"><userinput>make</userinput></screen> | 
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| 65 |  | 
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| 66 | <important os="l"> | 
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| 67 | <para>The test suite for GCC is considered | 
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| 68 | critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para> | 
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| 69 | </important> | 
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| 70 |  | 
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| 71 | <para os="m">Test the results, but do not stop at errors:</para> | 
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| 72 |  | 
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| 73 | <screen os="n"><userinput>make -k check</userinput></screen> | 
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| 74 |  | 
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| 75 | <para os="o">The <parameter>-k</parameter> flag is used to make the test suite | 
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| 76 | run through to completion and not stop at the first failure. The GCC test | 
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| 77 | suite is very comprehensive and is almost guaranteed to generate a few | 
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| 78 | failures. To receive a summary of the test suite results, run:</para> | 
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| 79 |  | 
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| 80 | <screen os="p"><userinput>../gcc-&gcc-version;/contrib/test_summary</userinput></screen> | 
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| 81 |  | 
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| 82 | <para os="q">For only the summaries, pipe the output through | 
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| 83 | <userinput>grep -A7 Summ</userinput>.</para> | 
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| 84 |  | 
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| 85 | <para os="r">A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The | 
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| 86 | GCC developers are usually aware of these issues, but have not | 
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| 87 | resolved them yet.</para> | 
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| 88 |  | 
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| 89 | <para os="s">Install the package:</para> | 
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| 90 |  | 
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| 91 | <screen os="t"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen> | 
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| 92 |  | 
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| 93 | <para os="u">Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the | 
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| 94 | <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory. | 
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| 95 | To support those packages, create this symlink:</para> | 
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| 96 |  | 
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| 97 | <screen os="v"><userinput>ln -sv ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</userinput></screen> | 
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| 98 |  | 
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| 99 | <para os="w">Many packages use the name <command>cc</command> to call the C | 
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| 100 | compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:</para> | 
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| 101 |  | 
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| 102 | <screen os="x"><userinput>ln -sv gcc /usr/bin/cc</userinput></screen> | 
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| 103 |  | 
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| 104 | </sect2> | 
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| 105 |  | 
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| 106 | <sect2 id="contents-gcc" role="content"> | 
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| 107 | <title>Contents of GCC</title> | 
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| 108 |  | 
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| 109 | <segmentedlist> | 
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| 110 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle> | 
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| 111 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle> | 
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| 112 |  | 
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| 113 | <seglistitem> | 
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| 114 | <seg>c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, gccbug, and gcov</seg> | 
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| 115 | <seg>libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libgcov.a, libgomp.[a,so], | 
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| 116 | libmudflap.[a,so], libmudflapth.[a,so], libssp.[a,so], | 
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| 117 | libssp_nonshared.a, libstdc++.[a,so], and libsupc++.a</seg> | 
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| 118 | </seglistitem> | 
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| 119 | </segmentedlist> | 
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| 120 |  | 
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| 121 | <variablelist> | 
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| 122 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead> | 
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| 123 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?> | 
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| 124 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?> | 
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| 125 |  | 
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| 126 | <varlistentry id="cc"> | 
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| 127 | <term><command>cc</command></term> | 
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| 128 | <listitem> | 
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| 129 | <para>The C compiler</para> | 
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| 130 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cc"> | 
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| 131 | <primary sortas="b-cc">cc</primary> | 
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| 132 | </indexterm> | 
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| 133 | </listitem> | 
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| 134 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 135 |  | 
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| 136 | <varlistentry id="cpp"> | 
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| 137 | <term><command>cpp</command></term> | 
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| 138 | <listitem> | 
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| 139 | <para>The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the | 
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| 140 | #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files</para> | 
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| 141 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cpp"> | 
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| 142 | <primary sortas="b-cpp">cpp</primary> | 
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| 143 | </indexterm> | 
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| 144 | </listitem> | 
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| 145 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 146 |  | 
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| 147 | <varlistentry id="c"> | 
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| 148 | <term><command>c++</command></term> | 
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| 149 | <listitem> | 
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| 150 | <para>The C++ compiler</para> | 
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| 151 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc c"> | 
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| 152 | <primary sortas="b-c++">c++</primary> | 
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| 153 | </indexterm> | 
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| 154 | </listitem> | 
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| 155 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 156 |  | 
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| 157 | <varlistentry id="g"> | 
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| 158 | <term><command>g++</command></term> | 
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| 159 | <listitem> | 
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| 160 | <para>The C++ compiler</para> | 
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| 161 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc g"> | 
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| 162 | <primary sortas="b-g++">g++</primary> | 
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| 163 | </indexterm> | 
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| 164 | </listitem> | 
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| 165 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 166 |  | 
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| 167 | <varlistentry id="gcc"> | 
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| 168 | <term><command>gcc</command></term> | 
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| 169 | <listitem> | 
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| 170 | <para>The C compiler</para> | 
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| 171 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcc"> | 
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| 172 | <primary sortas="b-gcc">gcc</primary> | 
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| 173 | </indexterm> | 
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| 174 | </listitem> | 
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| 175 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 176 |  | 
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| 177 | <varlistentry id="gccbug"> | 
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| 178 | <term><command>gccbug</command></term> | 
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| 179 | <listitem> | 
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| 180 | <para>A shell script used to help create useful bug reports</para> | 
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| 181 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gccbug"> | 
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| 182 | <primary sortas="b-gccbug">gccbug</primary> | 
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| 183 | </indexterm> | 
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| 184 | </listitem> | 
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| 185 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 186 |  | 
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| 187 | <varlistentry id="gcov"> | 
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| 188 | <term><command>gcov</command></term> | 
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| 189 | <listitem> | 
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| 190 | <para>A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to | 
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| 191 | determine where optimizations will have the most effect</para> | 
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| 192 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcov"> | 
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| 193 | <primary sortas="b-gcov">gcov</primary> | 
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| 194 | </indexterm> | 
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| 195 | </listitem> | 
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| 196 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 197 |  | 
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| 198 | <varlistentry id="libgcc"> | 
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| 199 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename></term> | 
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| 200 | <listitem> | 
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| 201 | <para>Contains run-time support for <command>gcc</command></para> | 
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| 202 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcc"> | 
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| 203 | <primary sortas="c-libgcc*">libgcc*</primary> | 
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| 204 | </indexterm> | 
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| 205 | </listitem> | 
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| 206 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 207 |  | 
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| 208 | <varlistentry id="libgcov"> | 
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| 209 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcov</filename></term> | 
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| 210 | <listitem> | 
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| 211 | <para>Library that is linked into a program when | 
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| 212 | <command>gcc</command> is instructed to enable profiling</para> | 
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| 213 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcov"> | 
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| 214 | <primary sortas="c-libgcov">libgcov</primary> | 
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| 215 | </indexterm> | 
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| 216 | </listitem> | 
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| 217 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 218 |  | 
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| 219 | <varlistentry id="libgomp"> | 
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| 220 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgomp</filename></term> | 
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| 221 | <listitem> | 
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| 222 | <para>GNU implementation of the OpenMP API for multi-platform | 
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| 223 | shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran</para> | 
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| 224 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgomp"> | 
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| 225 | <primary sortas="c-libgomp">libgomp</primary> | 
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| 226 | </indexterm> | 
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| 227 | </listitem> | 
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| 228 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 229 |  | 
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| 230 | <varlistentry id="libmudflap"> | 
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| 231 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmudflap</filename></term> | 
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| 232 | <listitem> | 
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| 233 | <para>The libmudflap libraries are used by GCC for instrumenting | 
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| 234 | pointer and array dereferencing operations.</para> | 
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| 235 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libmudflap"> | 
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| 236 | <primary sortas="c-libmudflap*">libmudflap*</primary> | 
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| 237 | </indexterm> | 
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| 238 | </listitem> | 
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| 239 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 240 |  | 
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| 241 | <varlistentry id="libssp"> | 
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| 242 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libssp</filename></term> | 
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| 243 | <listitem> | 
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| 244 | <para>Contains routines supporting GCC's stack-smashing protection | 
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| 245 | functionality</para> | 
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| 246 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libssp"> | 
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| 247 | <primary sortas="c-libssp*">libssp*</primary> | 
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| 248 | </indexterm> | 
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| 249 | </listitem> | 
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| 250 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 251 |  | 
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| 252 | <varlistentry id="libstdc"> | 
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| 253 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename></term> | 
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| 254 | <listitem> | 
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| 255 | <para>The standard C++ library</para> | 
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| 256 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libstdc"> | 
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| 257 | <primary sortas="c-libstdc++">libstdc++</primary> | 
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| 258 | </indexterm> | 
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| 259 | </listitem> | 
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| 260 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 261 |  | 
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| 262 | <varlistentry id="libsupc"> | 
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| 263 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsupc++</filename></term> | 
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| 264 | <listitem> | 
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| 265 | <para>Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming | 
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| 266 | language</para> | 
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| 267 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libsupc"> | 
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| 268 | <primary sortas="c-libsupc++">libsupc++</primary> | 
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| 269 | </indexterm> | 
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| 270 | </listitem> | 
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| 271 | </varlistentry> | 
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| 272 |  | 
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| 273 | </variablelist> | 
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| 274 |  | 
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| 275 | </sect2> | 
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| 276 |  | 
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| 277 | </sect1> | 
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