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It also contains several +subdirectories that contain parts of GCC and its runtime libraries: +</p> +<dl compact="compact"> +<dt><samp>c++tools</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Contains the sources for the g++-mapper-server, a tool used with +C++ modules. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>config</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Autoconf macros and Makefile fragments used throughout the tree. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>contrib</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Contributed scripts that may be found useful in conjunction with GCC. +One of these, <samp>contrib/texi2pod.pl</samp>, is used to generate man +pages from Texinfo manuals as part of the GCC build process. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>fixincludes</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The support for fixing system headers to work with GCC. See +<samp>fixincludes/README</samp> for more information. The headers fixed by +this mechanism are installed in <samp><var>libsubdir</var>/include-fixed</samp>. +Along with those headers, <samp>README-fixinc</samp> is also installed, as +<samp><var>libsubdir</var>/include-fixed/README</samp>. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>gcc</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The main sources of GCC itself (except for runtime libraries), +including optimizers, support for different target architectures, +language front ends, and testsuites. See <a href="gcc-Directory.html#gcc-Directory">The +<samp>gcc</samp> Subdirectory</a>, for details. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>gnattools</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Support tools for GNAT. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>gotools</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Support tools for Go. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>include</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Headers for the <code>libiberty</code> library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>intl</samp></dt> +<dd><p>GNU <code>libintl</code>, from GNU <code>gettext</code>, for systems which do not +include it in <code>libc</code>. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libada</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The Ada runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libatomic</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The runtime support library for atomic operations (e.g. for <code>__sync</code> +and <code>__atomic</code>). +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libbacktrace</samp></dt> +<dd><p>A library that allows GCC to produce backtraces when it crashes. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libcc1</samp></dt> +<dd><p>A library that allows GDB to make use of the compiler. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libcody</samp></dt> +<dd><p>A compiler dynamism library to allow communication between compilers and +build systems, for purposes such as C++ modules. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libcpp</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The C preprocessor library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libdecnumber</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The Decimal Float support library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libffi</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The <code>libffi</code> library, used as part of the Go runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libgcc</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The GCC runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libgfortran</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The Fortran runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libgm2</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The Modula-2 runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libgo</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The Go runtime library. The bulk of this library is mirrored from the +<a href="https://github.com/golang/go">master Go repository</a>. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libgomp</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The GNU Offloading and Multi Processing Runtime Library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libiberty</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The <code>libiberty</code> library, used for portability and for some +generally useful data structures and algorithms. See <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libiberty/index.html#Top">Introduction</a> in <cite><small>GNU</small> libiberty</cite>, for more information +about this library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libitm</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The runtime support library for transactional memory. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libobjc</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The Objective-C and Objective-C++ runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libphobos</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The D standard and runtime library. The bulk of this library is mirrored +from the <a href="https://github.com/dlang">master D repositories</a>. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libquadmath</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The runtime support library for quad-precision math operations. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libsanitizer</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Libraries for various sanitizers. The bulk of this directory is mirrored +from the <a href="https://github.com/google/sanitizers">Google sanitizers +repositories</a>. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libssp</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The Stack protector runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libstdc++-v3</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The C++ runtime library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>libvtv</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The vtable verification library. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>lto-plugin</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Plugin used by the linker if link-time optimizations are enabled. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>maintainer-scripts</samp></dt> +<dd><p>Scripts used by the <code>gccadmin</code> account on <code>gcc.gnu.org</code>. +</p> +</dd> +<dt><samp>zlib</samp></dt> +<dd><p>The <code>zlib</code> compression library, used for compressing and +uncompressing GCC’s intermediate language in LTO object files. +</p></dd> +</dl> + +<p>The build system in the top level directory, including how recursion +into subdirectories works and how building runtime libraries for +multilibs is handled, is documented in a separate manual, included +with GNU Binutils. +</p> +<hr> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="gcc-Directory.html#gcc-Directory" accesskey="n" rel="next">gcc Directory</a>, Previous: <a href="Configure-Terms.html#Configure-Terms" accesskey="p" rel="previous">Configure Terms</a>, Up: <a href="Source-Tree.html#Source-Tree" accesskey="u" rel="up">Source Tree</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Option-Index.html#Option-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |