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3.4. Additional Resources
A detailed description of the GNU Compiler Collections and its features is beyond the scope of this book. For more information, see the resources listed below.
Installed Documentation
- gcc(1) — The manual page for the
gcccompiler provides detailed information on its usage; with few exceptions,g++accepts the same command line options asgcc. To display the manual page for the version included in Red Hat Developer Toolset, type:scl enable devtoolset-4 'man gcc' - gfortran(1) — The manual page for the
gfortrancompiler provides detailed information on its usage. To display the manual page for the version included in Red Hat Developer Toolset, type:scl enable devtoolset-4 'man gfortran' - C++ Standard Library Documentation — Documentation on the C++ standard library can be optionally installed by typing the following at a shell prompt as
root:yum install devtoolset-4-libstdc++-docsOnce installed, HTML documentation is available at/opt/rh/devtoolset-4/root/usr/share/doc/devtoolset-4-libstdc++-docs-5.3.1/html/index.html.
Online Documentation
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Developer Guide and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Developer Guide — The Developer Guides for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7 provide in-depth information about GCC.
- Using the GNU Compiler Collection — The official GCC manual provides an in-depth description of the GNU compilers and their usage.
- The GNU C++ Library — The GNU C++ library documentation provides detailed information about the GNU implementation of the standard C++ library.
- The GNU Fortran Compiler — The GNU Fortran compiler documentation provides detailed information on
gfortran's usage.
See Also
- Chapter 1, Red Hat Developer Toolset provides an overview of Red Hat Developer Toolset and more information on how to install it on your system.
- Chapter 2, Eclipse provides a general introduction to the Eclipse development environment, and describes how to use it with the tools from Red Hat Developer Toolset.
- Chapter 4, binutils explains how to use the binutils, a collection of binary tools to inspect and manipulate object files and binaries.
- Chapter 5, elfutils explains how to use elfutils, a collection of binary tools to inspect and manipulate ELF files.
- Chapter 6, dwz explains how to use dwz to optimize DWARF debugging information contained in ELF shared libraries and ELF executables for size.
- Chapter 7, GNU Debugger (GDB) provides information on how to debug programs written in C, C++, and Fortran.

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