Skip to main content

You are not logged in. Your edit will be placed in a queue until it is peer reviewed.

We welcome edits that make the post easier to understand and more valuable for readers. Because community members review edits, please try to make the post substantially better than how you found it, for example, by fixing grammar or adding additional resources and hyperlinks.

Required fields*

7
  • 1
    Can you please explain what you mean by "driver binary"? Commented Oct 4, 2009 at 15:19
  • 7
    Most C compilers, but GCC specifically, have a number of programs that do the compilation work. There is a top-level program, called 'gcc', that is the compiler driver; it parses a myriad command line options and orchestrates the other phases of the compiler - the parser/analyzer, the optimizer, the assembler and the linker, typically (the preprocessor is not usually a separate phase these days, unless you request only preprocessing). It (the compiler driver) is quite a complex program, even though it never touches a C source file itself. Commented Oct 4, 2009 at 15:28
  • 5
    CC is also the Sun C++ compiler - and not an environment variable. Commented Oct 4, 2009 at 15:39
  • 2
    SGI's C++ compiler is also CC. Commented Oct 4, 2009 at 18:54
  • 1
    Well, I suppose Managu is thinking that ./configure+make can take an environment variable named CC to affect the C compiler used, but otherwise there isn't generally an environment variable by that name. Commented Oct 5, 2009 at 0:19