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Difference between GCC and G++

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GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collections which is used to compile mainly C and C++ language. It can also be used to compile Objective C and Objective C++. The most important option required while compiling a source code file is the name of the source program, rest every argument is optional like a warning, debugging, linking libraries, object file, etc. The different options of GCC command allow the user to stop the compilation process at different stages.

g++ command is a GNU c++ compiler invocation command, which is used for preprocessing, compilation, assembly and linking of source code to generate an executable file. The different “options” of g++ command allow us to stop this process at the intermediate stage.

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN g++ & gcc

g++ gcc
g++ is used to compile C++ program. gcc is used to compile C program.
g++ can compile any .c or .cpp files but they will be treated as C++ files only. gcc can compile any .c or .cpp files but they will be treated as C and C++ respectively.
Command to compile C++ program through g++ is
g++ fileName.cpp -o binary
command to compile C program through gcc is
gcc fileName.c -o binary
Using g++ to link the object files, files automatically links in the std C++ libraries. gcc does not do this.
g++ compiles with more predefined macros. gcc compiles C++ files with more number of predefined macros. Some of them are #define __GXX_WEAK__ 1, #define __cplusplus 1, #define __DEPRECATED 1, etc

Last Updated : 24 Nov, 2020
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