Here’s a history quiz: What architecture did the first C++ compiler target? Of course, it is a trick question. The original C++ — known then as C with classes — compiler wrote out standard C code that ...

AdaCore’s latest GNAT Pro Ada compiler can generate C source code, delivering portability to most platforms with a C compiler. Using CCG is just a matter of a command-line option (see codelist below).

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units). “What we see is more and more people are ...