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