An Introduction to GCC

Rating:
Summary: suitable for a new user
Review: You might choose to regard this book by Gough as a natural complement to Stallman's 'Using GCC: The GNU Compiler Collection Reference Manual for GCC 3.3.1'. As you may know, Stallman wrote the original gcc. Gough pitches his book at a new user of gcc, or, for that matter, for a programmer new to C itself. Whereas the aforementioned book by Stallman is for experienced users.

Gough writes concisely. You should be able to quickly absorb the entire contents of the book. During which, learning about how to use gcc with various libraries and header files might also prove instructive in laying out a program, to be scattered across various *.c and *.h files. For those of you who strongly support the concept of open source code, there is the extra incentive that royalties from this book will go to those ends.