Version 8 of GNU

Updated 2013-09-02 13:49:41 by pooryorick

Summary

GNU is an short for GNU's Not Unix and is therefore a recursively-defined acronym.

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website

http://www.gnu.org/

Description

GNU refers to various closely related things, but they all stem from Richard Stallman and the FSF's attempt to create a complete UNIX system that is completely free from commercial ties.

Tcl programmers should take note of two particular aspects of the GNU project:

gcc

the GNU C Compiler, is by far and wide the most widely portable C compiler in the world, and it is (or should be) the aim of anyone developing the Tcl core (or common extensions) to compile completely cleanly using this compiler, even when all warnings are turned on.

GPL

The GNU Public License is a family of software licenses that are common among FSF developers and many others

gcc is called nowadays the GNU Compiler Collection, given the variety of front- and backends to the same internal engine.

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