Demystifying GCC
Under the Hood of the GNU Compiler Collection
(An OOPSLA 2006 Tutorial)

These are distributed as patches to the GCC 4.1.1 release. Use the patch(1) utility to patch the sources:

$ cd gcc-4.1.1
$ patch -p1 < patch-file

• adding an option to GCC
• simple array bounds check elision
• compiler support for RTSJ restrictions (jRate)
• (limited & incomplete) multidispatch for Java

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