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> Is 'cc' a preprocessor? A compiler? A linker? Yes! It's none of them; it's a driver which calls the preprocessor (cpp), the real compiler, and the linker (ld
by cesarb 3y ago
> Is 'cc' a preprocessor? A compiler? A linker? Yes!
It's none of them; it's a driver which calls the preprocessor (cpp), the real compiler, and the linker (ld).
- eesmith 3y agoThe man pages call it a compiler: % man cc ... DESCRIPTION clang is a C, C++, and Objective-C compiler which encompasses preprocessing, parsing, optimization, code generation, assembly, and linking. % man gcc ... NAME gcc - GNU project C and C++ compiler ...