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[1770019] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
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[673b0d8] | 3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 4 | %general-entities;
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| 5 | ]>
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[81fd230] | 6 | <sect1 id="ch-system-gcc" role="wrap">
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[673b0d8] | 7 | <title>GCC-&gcc-version;</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="gcc.html"?>
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[6370fa6] | 9 |
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[673b0d8] | 10 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc"><primary sortas="a-GCC">GCC</primary></indexterm>
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| 11 |
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[a001133] | 12 | <sect2 role="package"><title/>
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[81fd230] | 13 | <para>The GCC package contains the GNU compiler collection, which includes
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| 14 | the C and C++ compilers.</para>
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[5888299] | 15 |
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[a001133] | 16 | <segmentedlist>
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| 17 | <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
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| 18 | <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
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[fc1024a] | 19 | <seglistitem><seg>11.7 SBU</seg><seg>451 MB</seg></seglistitem>
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[a001133] | 20 | </segmentedlist>
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[3554fa3a] | 21 |
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[81fd230] | 22 | <segmentedlist>
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[45992ae] | 23 | <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
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[81fd230] | 24 | <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Findutils,
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| 25 | Gawk, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo</seg></seglistitem>
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| 26 | </segmentedlist>
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[a001133] | 27 | </sect2>
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[5888299] | 28 |
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[a001133] | 29 | <sect2 role="installation">
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[73aedd1d] | 30 | <title>Installation of GCC</title>
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| 31 |
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[81fd230] | 32 | <para>This package is known to have issues when its default
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| 33 | optimization flags (including the <parameter>-march</parameter> and
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| 34 | <parameter>-mcpu</parameter> options) are changed. If any environment
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| 35 | variables that override default optimizations have been defined, such
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| 36 | as <envar>CFLAGS</envar> and <envar>CXXFLAGS</envar>,
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| 37 | unset them when building GCC.</para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <para>Apply only the No-Fixincludes patch (not the Specs patch) also
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| 40 | used in the previous chapter:</para>
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[37dcf2a] | 41 |
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[e075967] | 42 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-&gcc-version;-no_fixincludes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[041cbb60] | 43 |
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[81fd230] | 44 | <para>GCC fails to compile some packages outside of a base Linux From Scratch
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| 45 | install (e.g., Mozilla and kdegraphics) when used in conjunction with newer
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| 46 | versions of Binutils. Apply the following patch to fix this issue:</para>
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[041cbb60] | 47 |
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| 48 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-&gcc-version;-linkonce-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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[37dcf2a] | 49 |
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[373a708] | 50 | <para>Apply a <command>sed</command> substitution that will suppress the
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| 51 | installation of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename>. The
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| 52 | version of <filename class="libraryfile">libiberty.a</filename> provided by
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[81fd230] | 53 | Binutils will be used instead:</para>
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[37dcf2a] | 54 |
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| 55 | <screen><userinput>sed -i 's/install_to_$(INSTALL_DEST) //' libiberty/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 56 |
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[81fd230] | 57 | <para>The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside of the source
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| 58 | directory in a dedicated build directory:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 59 |
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| 60 | <screen><userinput>mkdir ../gcc-build
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| 61 | cd ../gcc-build</userinput></screen>
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| 62 |
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[81fd230] | 63 | <para>Prepare GCC for compilation:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 64 |
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[673b0d8] | 65 | <screen><userinput>../gcc-&gcc-version;/configure --prefix=/usr \
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[d72e04a] | 66 | --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared \
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| 67 | --enable-threads=posix --enable-__cxa_atexit \
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| 68 | --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-languages=c,c++</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 69 |
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| 70 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 73 |
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[81fd230] | 74 | <important><para>In this section, the test suite for GCC is considered
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| 75 | critical. Do not skip it under any circumstance.</para></important>
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| 76 |
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| 77 | <para>Test the results, but do not stop at errors:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 78 |
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| 79 | <screen><userinput>make -k check</userinput></screen>
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| 80 |
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[81fd230] | 81 | <para>Some of the errors are known issues and were noted in the
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| 82 | previous chapter. The test suite notes from <xref
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| 83 | linkend="ch-tools-gcc-pass2" role=","/> are still relevant here. Be sure to
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| 84 | refer back to them as necessary.</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 85 |
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[81fd230] | 86 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 87 |
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| 88 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 89 |
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[373a708] | 90 | <para>Some packages expect the C preprocessor to be installed in the
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[81fd230] | 91 | <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory.
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| 92 | To support those packages, create this symlink:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 93 |
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| 94 | <screen><userinput>ln -s ../usr/bin/cpp /lib</userinput></screen>
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| 95 |
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[81fd230] | 96 | <para>Many packages use the name <command>cc</command> to call the C
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| 97 | compiler. To satisfy those packages, create a symlink:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 98 |
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| 99 | <screen><userinput>ln -s gcc /usr/bin/cc</userinput></screen>
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| 100 |
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[81fd230] | 101 | <note><para>At this point, it is strongly recommended to repeat the
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| 102 | sanity check performed earlier in this chapter. Refer back to <xref
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| 103 | linkend="ch-system-readjusting" role=","/> and repeat the check. If the results
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| 104 | are in error, then the most likely reason is that the GCC Specs patch
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| 105 | from <xref linkend="chapter-temporary-tools"/> was erroneously applied
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| 106 | here.</para></note>
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[73aedd1d] | 107 |
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| 108 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 109 |
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[5888299] | 110 |
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[c6cb3aa] | 111 | <sect2 id="contents-gcc" role="content"><title>Contents of GCC</title>
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[673b0d8] | 112 |
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[81fd230] | 113 | <segmentedlist>
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| 114 | <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
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| 115 | <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
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| 116 | <seglistitem><seg>c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, gccbug, and
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| 117 | gcov</seg>
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| 118 | <seg>libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libstdc++.[a,so], and libsupc++.a</seg></seglistitem>
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| 119 | </segmentedlist>
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| 120 |
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| 121 | <variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 122 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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[8f97096] | 123 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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[81fd230] | 124 |
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| 125 | <varlistentry id="cc">
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| 126 | <term><command>cc</command></term>
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| 127 | <listitem>
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| 128 | <para>The C compiler</para>
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| 129 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cc"><primary sortas="b-cc">cc</primary></indexterm>
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| 130 | </listitem>
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| 131 | </varlistentry>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <varlistentry id="cpp">
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| 134 | <term><command>cpp</command></term>
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| 135 | <listitem>
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| 136 | <para>The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the
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| 137 | #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files</para>
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| 138 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc cpp"><primary sortas="b-cpp">cpp</primary></indexterm>
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| 139 | </listitem>
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| 140 | </varlistentry>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <varlistentry id="c">
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| 143 | <term><command>c++</command></term>
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| 144 | <listitem>
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| 145 | <para>The C++ compiler</para>
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| 146 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc c"><primary sortas="b-c++">c++</primary></indexterm>
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| 147 | </listitem>
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| 148 | </varlistentry>
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| 149 |
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| 150 | <varlistentry id="g">
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| 151 | <term><command>g++</command></term>
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| 152 | <listitem>
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| 153 | <para>The C++ compiler</para>
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| 154 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc g"><primary sortas="b-g++">g++</primary></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"><primary sortas="b-gcc">gcc</primary></indexterm>
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| 163 | </listitem>
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| 164 | </varlistentry>
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| 165 |
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| 166 | <varlistentry id="gccbug">
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| 167 | <term><command>gccbug</command></term>
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| 168 | <listitem>
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| 169 | <para>A shell script used to help create useful bug reports</para>
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| 170 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gccbug"><primary sortas="b-gccbug">gccbug</primary></indexterm>
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[f3a70cd] | 171 | <beginpage/></listitem>
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[81fd230] | 172 | </varlistentry>
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| 173 |
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| 174 | <varlistentry id="gcov">
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| 175 | <term><command>gcov</command></term>
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| 176 | <listitem>
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| 177 | <para>A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to
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| 178 | determine where optimizations will have the most effect</para>
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| 179 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc gcov"><primary sortas="b-gcov">gcov</primary></indexterm>
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| 180 | </listitem>
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| 181 | </varlistentry>
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| 182 |
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| 183 | <varlistentry id="libgcc">
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| 184 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgcc</filename></term>
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| 185 | <listitem>
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| 186 | <para>Contains run-time support for <command>gcc</command></para>
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| 187 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libgcc"><primary sortas="c-libgcc*">libgcc*</primary></indexterm>
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| 188 | </listitem>
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| 189 | </varlistentry>
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| 190 |
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| 191 | <varlistentry id="libstdc">
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| 192 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libstdc++</filename></term>
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| 193 | <listitem>
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| 194 | <para>The standard C++ library</para>
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| 195 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libstdc"><primary sortas="c-libstdc++">libstdc++</primary></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="libsupc">
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| 200 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libsupc++</filename></term>
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| 201 | <listitem>
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| 202 | <para>Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming language</para>
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| 203 | <indexterm zone="ch-system-gcc libsupc"><primary sortas="c-libsupc++">libsupc++</primary></indexterm>
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| 204 | </listitem>
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| 205 | </varlistentry>
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| 206 | </variablelist>
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[673b0d8] | 207 |
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| 208 | </sect2>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | </sect1>
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