Internals of GCC
The first programming language I learned was C, and getting to know how to run programs or even know issues about the compiler... well... I clearly had no idea of what a compiler was. In this week's blog, we had the opportunity to hear Morgan Deters talk more about GCC ( GNU Compiler Collection). Before arriving to this class, I had very little knowledge of how a programming language is turned into machine code. I only knew source code --> object code and that's it. Later on I knew that besides a compiler there was another component called an interpreter (like python). With the magic of tombstones diagrams, it is relatively easy to model how we can traduce x code to y code. From what I understood from the podcast, the first step is that the compiler compiles using the C language a primitive version and then compiles the entire version. Most students (at least in the first semesters and in software engineer ) do not even care about the whole process that a code like print(&q