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Google today launched Portable Native Client (PNaCl, pronounced pinnacle) as part of its push to bring native code to more and more platforms. The tool lets developers compile their code once to run ...

Doesn't g77 have an option to compile to object code ('-c' perhaps)? Then all you have to do is link the objects together as usual. Assuming you've all ready handled issues like calling conventions in ...

The compiler analyzed it, optimized it, and emitted precisely the machine instructions you expected. Same input, same output.

We don’t know what normal people argue about, but we know we spend a lot of time arguing about the best microcontroller, which editor is the best, and what language or compiler does the best job. The ...

Over the years, applications have gotten bigger and bigger. Even a small company could be dealing with large libraries of open source code, making it time-consuming to pull the various pieces of a ...