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6.21.2. Contents of GCC‌

Installed programs: c++, cc (link to gcc), cpp, g++, gcc, gcc-ar, gcc-nm, gcc-ranlib, gcov, gcov-dump, and gcov-tool

Installed libraries: libasan.{a,so}, libatomic.{a,so}, libcc1.so, libgcc.a, libgcc_eh.a, libgcc_s.so, libgcov.a, libgomp.{a,so}, libitm.{a,so}, liblsan.{a,so}, liblto_plugin.so, libquadmath.{a,so}, libssp.{a,so}, libssp_nonshared.a, libstdc++.{a,so}, libstdc++fs.a, libsupc++.a, libtsan.

{a,so}, and libubsan.{a,so}

Installed directories: /usr/include/c++, /usr/lib/gcc, /usr/libexec/gcc, and /usr/share/gcc-9.2.0

Short Descriptions

c++ The C++ compiler

cc The C compiler

cpp The C preprocessor; it is used by the compiler to expand the #include, #define, and similar statements in the source files

g++ The C++ compiler

gcc The C compiler

gcc-ar A wrapper around ar that adds a plugin to the command line. This program is only used to add "link time optimization" and is not useful with the default build options

gcc-nm A wrapper around nm that adds a plugin to the command line. This program is only used to add "link time optimization" and is not useful with the default build options

gcc-ranlib A wrapper around ranlib that adds a plugin to the command line. This program is only used to add "link time optimization" and is not useful with the default build options

gcov A coverage testing tool; it is used to analyze programs to determine where optimizations will have the most effect

gcov-dump Offline gcda and gcno profile dump tool gcov-tool Offline gcda profile processing tool libasan The Address Sanitizer runtime library libatomic GCC atomic built-in runtime library libcc1 The C preprocessing library‌‌‌‌

libgcc Contains run-time support for gcc

libgcov This library is linked in to a program when GCC is instructed to enable profiling

libgomp GNU implementation of the OpenMP API for multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and Fortran

liblsan The Leak Sanitizer runtime library

liblto_plugin GCC's Link Time Optimization (LTO) plugin allows GCC to perform optimizations across compilation units

libquadmath GCC Quad Precision Math Library API

libssp Contains routines supporting GCC's stack-smashing protection functionality

libstdc++ The standard C++ library

libstdc++fs ISO/IEC TS 18822:2015 Filesystem library

libsupc++ Provides supporting routines for the C++ programming language

libtsan The Thread Sanitizer runtime library

libubsan The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer runtime library