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The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) is a compiler system produced by the GNU Project supporting various programming languages.
GCC is a key component of the GNU toolchain and the standard compiler for most Unix-like operating systems .
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) distributes GCC under the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). GCC has played an important role in the growth of free software, as both a tool and an example.
When it was first released in 1987, GCC 1.0 was named the GNU C Compiler since it only handled the C programming language.
It was extended to compile C++ in December of that year. Front ends were later developed for Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran, Java, Ada, and Go, among others.