Beginning C++ Compilers: An Introductory Guide to Microsoft C/C++ and MinGW Compilers

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9. Compilers

Berik I. Tuleuov¹   and Ademi B. Ospanova²

(1)

Nur-Sultan, Akmolinskaia, Kazakhstan

(2)

Nur-Sułtan, Kazakhstan

 

This chapter provides brief descriptions of the widely used compilers for C/C++ and Fortran and gives practical advice on working with them.

A compiler is a special program designed to translate code written in a high-level language (Fortran, C/C++, etc.) into a processor “language” consisting of machine instructions. The input of the compiler is (in the simplest case) a file with the text of the program, say, in the C/C++ language, and the output ...