Broader compiler support is driving a resurgence in interest in the nearly 35-year-old C++ programming language, which replaces Python in Tiobe's top 3.

LONDON — A C language compiler developed by basestation processor developer PicoChip Ltd. (Bath, England) has been accepted as an official port for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The compiler is ...

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 ...

The 2.7 release marks a major milestone for LLVM, as it's the first time that its C language compiler, Clang, has sufficient C++ support to self-host, meaning that it can compile a functional ...

Go offers an expressive type system, fast compilation, good performance, and built-in language features that simplify threaded programming and concurrency. The language has been under development ...

Embedded compilers typically provide non-standard C language extensions to allow you to avoid padding in a struct. For example, the IAR compiler in the video provides the extended keyword ‘__packed’ ...

With the 7.1 version of the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection), released this week, the platform gets early support for the C++ 17 standard and diagnostics enhancements. The GCC 7 series differs from ...