Appendix B. Programming Tools
In this chapter, we introduce some basic programming tools that can help us to achieve our programming goals.
B.1 gcc
One of the most popular C++ compilers is g++, the C++ version of the C compiler gcc. The acronym used to stand for Gnu C Compiler, but the compiler supports several other languages (Fortran, D, Ada, . . .) and the name was changed to Gnu Compiler Collection while keeping the acronym. This section gives a short introduction to how to use it.
The following command:
g++ -o hello hello.cpp
compiles the C++ source file hello.cpp into the executable hello. The flag -o can be omitted. Then the executable will be named a.out (for bizarre historical reasons as an abbreviation of “assembler output”). As soon ...
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