Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

With AdaCore’s latest GNAT Pro Ada compiler, it’s now possible to generate C source code using its Common Code Generator (CCG). This is designed to provide portability to the vast majority of ...

Clacc is a Software Technology development effort funded by the US Exascale Computing Project (ECP) PROTEAS-TUNE project to develop production OpenACC compiler support for Clang and the LLVM Compiler ...

Have you ever thought of writing your own compiler? There are a number of good reasons to do this. It's incredibly educational and can be useful. It can solve problems and produce abstractions that ...

Zapcc, a caching C++ compiler built for speed, has gone open source. Ceemple Software, Zapcc’s builder, claims the compiler offers dramatic improvements in both incremental and full builds compared to ...

This article, and the one to follow, are based on a Software Development class I taught a few years ago. The students in this class were non-programmers who had been hired to receive bug reports for a ...