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compiler Definition

com·piler (-pīl′ər)

noun

a person or thing that compiles; specif., a computer program that translates instructions, other programs, etc. in a high-level language into a machine language

Compiler Hacker Definition

A computing science term, the compiler transforms human readable source code into binary code that computers understand.

See Also: Code or Source Code.

compiler Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • optimize: An algorithm I developed with a grad student in the 1970s is used for this purpose in many existing optimizing compilers.
  • optimize: Accuracy: GranSim is based on GHC, an optimizing compiler for Haskell.
  • debug: Don't set this flag unless you want to debug the compiler!
  • invoke: There was a rule to generate a.P file by invoking the compiler appropriately.

Adjective modifier

  • g77: Install the g77 compiler using apt-get install g77 then see the gfortran advice.
  • fortran: To find out more about their fortran compilers, visit the gcc website.
  • just-in-time: So we can set about downloading and installing psyco ---a just-in-time native code compiler for Python.
  • incremental: E.g. it has no interpreter, only an incremental compiler.

Modifies a noun

  • directive: Compiler directive option You can specify the alias assumption in each function by the compiler directive option alias.
  • -pvctl: When the partial vectorization is not performed, the compiler option -pvctl nodivloop or the compiler directive option nodivloop is specified.
  • gcc: Computers with the GNU compiler collection gcc, g77, ( and optionally g++ ) will compile ESP-r.
  • optimization: I wonder if any other compiler optimization tricks could be implemented as bytecode hacks Like this post?
  • optimization: GCC optimization flags are removed as compiler optimization can sometimes cause problems while profiling.
  • flag: Compiler flags The command line may optionally be given a flag or flags which affect how scc operates.

Noun used with modifier

  • f95: The model is developed to a large extent on Linux systems and works with the NAG and INTEL f95 compilers.
  • JIT: In 2001, Bernd further refined the JIT Compiler for inclusion in Amithlon.
  • gnu: GNU compiler On the software side, recently I have come across a truly superb compiler.
  • gcc: For example, many IDL users have the gcc compiler installed on their systems.
  • GCC: NOTE -- Native Solaris Threads are not supported with the GNU GCC compiler.
  • bytecode: This allows the Tcl bytecode compiler to generate the best code.