| 1 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 3 | <sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <para>(Last checked against version &gcc-contversion;.)</para>
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title>
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| 8 |
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| 9 | <sect4><title>cc, cc1, cc1plus, gcc</title>
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| 10 | <para>These are the C compiler. A compiler translates source code in
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| 11 | text format to a format that a computer understands. After a source code
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| 12 | file is compiled into an object file, a linker will create an executable
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| 13 | file from one or more of these compiler generated object files.</para></sect4>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect4><title>c++, cc1plus, g++</title>
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| 16 | <para>These are the C++ compiler, the equivalent of cc and
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| 17 | gcc etc.</para></sect4>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect4><title>c++filt</title>
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| 20 | <para>The C++ language provides function overloading, which means that it is
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| 21 | possible to write many functions with the same name (providing each takes
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| 22 | parameters of different types). All C++ function names are encoded into
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| 23 | a low-level assembly label (this process is known as mangling). The c++filt
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| 24 | program does the inverse mapping: it decodes (demangles) low-level names
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| 25 | into user-level names so that the linker can keep these overloaded functions
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| 26 | from clashing.</para></sect4>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <sect4><title>collect2</title>
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| 29 | <para>collect2 assists with the compilation of constructors.</para></sect4>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <sect4><title>cpp, cpp0</title>
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| 32 | <para>cpp pre-processes a source file, such as including the contents of
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| 33 | header files into the source file. Simply add a line, such as #include
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| 34 | <filename>, to your source file. The preprocessor will insert the
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| 35 | contents of the included file into the source file.</para></sect4>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | <sect4><title>gccbug</title>
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| 38 | <para>gccbug is a shell script which is used to simplify the creation of
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| 39 | bug reports.</para></sect4>
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <sect4><title>gcov</title>
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| 42 | <para>gcov analyzes programs to help create more efficient, faster running
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| 43 | code through optimization.</para></sect4>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | <sect4><title>tradcpp0</title>
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| 46 | <para>No description is currently available.</para></sect4>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | </sect3>
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| 49 |
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| 50 | <sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title>
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| 51 |
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| 52 | <sect4><title>libgcc, libgcc_eh, libgcc_s</title>
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| 53 | <para>Run-time support files for gcc.</para></sect4>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <sect4><title>libiberty</title>
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| 56 | <para>libiberty is a collection of subroutines used by various GNU
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| 57 | programs including getopt, obstack, strerror, strtol and strtoul.</para></sect4>
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| 58 |
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| 59 | <sect4><title>libstdc++</title>
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| 60 | <para>libstdc++ is the C++ library. It is used by C++ programs and contains
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| 61 | functions that are frequently used in C++ programs. This way the
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| 62 | programmer doesn't have to write certain functions (such as writing a
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| 63 | string of text to the screen) from scratch every time he creates a
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| 64 | program.</para></sect4>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <sect4><title>libsupc++</title>
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| 67 | <para>libsupc++ provides support for the c++ programming language. Among other
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| 68 | things, libsupc++ contains routines for exception handling.</para></sect4>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | </sect3>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | </sect2>
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