Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.

The MIT researchers studied a dozen common C/C++ compilers to see how they dealt with undefined code. They found that, over time, compilers are becoming more aggressive in how they deal with such ...

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 ...

Zapcc is a caching C++ compiler based on a fork of Clang/LLVM that claims to be up to 50x faster on recompilations and 2–5x faster on full builds. Developed by Creemple and initially released at ...

Two popular code compilers have received support this month to natively support Control Flow Guard (CFG), a powerful Windows security feature.

VS Code: New C++ language extension brings Microsoft's code-completion to Raspberry Pi 4 Microsoft forges ahead with support for Arm-based platforms, including its Surface Pro X and the Raspberry Pi.

Nvidia has announced it will release the source code for its latest CUDA compiler, which allows programs to use Nvidia GPUs for general purpose parallel computing. The move will mean that more ...

Visual Studio Code developers using Microsoft's C/C++ extension have gained the ability to customize the way IntelliSense works when coding for different platforms.

Exciting news from the LinuxDNA project, which earlier this month successfully compiled a recent Linux kernel with the Intel C/C++ compiler (ICC). This is not just a compile without errors, this is — ...

Refactor non-synthesizable code for HLS – After generating the algorithm C/C++ code in MATLAB Embedded Coder, SLX FPGA identifies code which is non-synthesizable by HLS compilers and provides ...