A cross compiler is a compiler capable of creating executable code for a platform other than the one on which the compiler is running. For example, a compiler...

the cross-compiler itself runs. A bootstrap compiler is often a temporary compiler, used for compiling a more permanent or better optimised compiler for...

computer science, a compiler-compiler or compiler generator is a programming tool that creates a parser, interpreter, or compiler from some form of formal...

The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a collection of compilers from the GNU Project that support various programming languages, hardware architectures...

producing a self-compiling compiler – that is, a compiler (or assembler) written in the source programming language that it intends to compile. An initial...

single locale. Uses a GCC Front End. The EDGE C/C++ compiler is based on the Microtec C/C++ compiler. Last Open64 v5.0 uses GCC 4.2 as its Front End, which...

the cross compiler (or cross assembler when working with assembly language). A cross compiler allows source code on one platform to be compiled for a...

executable programs. The Production Quality Compiler-Compiler, in the late 1970s, introduced the principles of compiler organization that are still widely used...

programming. The PL/C compiler, which implemented almost all of the large PL/I language, had the unusual capability of never failing to compile a program, through...

create Microsoft Windows applications. MinGW includes a port of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), GNU Binutils for Windows (assembler, linker, archive...