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Why It’s Time to Replace Turbo C/C++ With Modern FOSS Tools

Thousands of schools and colleges continue to teach C and C++ using Turbo C/C++, a compiler that was last updated more than ...
Ars Technica

Great, Free C Compilers for Windows?

Anyone know of any good, free C compilers for Windows (I run Win2k currently). Go to cygwin's website and download cygwin, which is the UNIX API ported to windows. That includes gcc, the GNU C ...
Hackaday

Putting The C In C64

Older CPUs and some fairly modern microcontrollers are not made to readily support C compilers. Among those are the 1802, some 8-bit PICs, and the 6502 at the heart of the Commodore 64. That’s not to ...
InfoWorld

GCC 15 compilers arrive with Rust, C, C++, and Cobol enhancements

Major release of the open-source compiler collection also includes vectorization improvements and faster compiling of very large input files. GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 15.1 has arrived with ...
Ars Technica

Chrome on Windows ditches Microsoft’s compiler, now uses Clang

Google’s Chrome browser is now built using the Clang compiler on Windows. Previously built using the Microsoft C++ compiler, Google is now using the same compiler for Windows, macOS, Linux, and ...
Hackaday

Can You Trust Your C Compiler?

If you are writing a hello world program, you probably aren’t too concerned about how the compiler translates your source code to machine code. However, if your code runs on something that people’s ...