Using GCC’s C Compiler

This chapter's goal is to get you comfortable with typical usage of the GNU Compiler Collection's C compiler, gcc. This chapter focuses on those command-line options and constructs that are specific to GCC's C compiler. Options that can generally be used with any GCC compiler are discussed in Appendix A. Throughout this chapter, as throughout this book, I'll differentiate between GCC (the GNU Compiler Collection) and gcc, the C compiler that is provided as part of GCC.