The Definitive Guide to GCC (Definitive Guides (Paperback))

Poor description of GCC. Lots of duplicate descriptions and is out of date.

GCC continues to evolve and add new flags. Last year it stepped up to C11 and added new optimizations. GCC has FORTRAN and Java compilation capabilities, who knew?. The book covers the best use of Autoconf and Automake with GCC. It also covers using a host of support libaries. There are two section in the Appendix covering the use of specific options.I found this book to be of immense value in giving me an instant expertise in the use of the GCC. I had a dual goal project that required the same code to work on both Linux and Windows. This book gave me the knowledge to make that possible in a relatively short time. My time is worth money, your time should be valuable to. Stop depending on dated website trivia and decade old Linux manuals. Step up to the real world and see what the future can do for you. It's covered in this book.

If your looking for in depth knowledge of GCC the compiler this is the book. It covers multiple opperating systems and multiple versions of GCC. Starting with the history of GCC up to current versions of 4.x. A must read for any C or C++ even Objective-C developers (GCC compiles many more languages). Its a great reference to have in your war chest!

Actually, this book does cover the FORTRAN and Java aspects of GCC for a couple of chapters, but yes it is mostly for C/C++ programmers. Anyway, if you want to learn about all of GCC's different switches, optimization techniques, and warnings then this book has it all. It also covers the "helper" tools like gcov.

Very helpful. I learned a lot about GCC and found this book very readable.

Informative, both basic and more advanced uses. However the plethora of tags that gcc takes can leave you with a headache if you don't know what your looking for. I had hoped there was a chapter on frontend/backend use, and how to build an interface to call GCC. Doesn't get into GAS or GDB at all.