Intel Updates Its Linux Compilers

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(08/27/01, 08:35:36 AM EDT)

Intel Corporation released version 5.0 of the Intel C++ Compiler for Linux and the Intel Fortran Compiler for Linux. The compilers have been updated to support their latest Itanium and Pentium 4 processors, so Linux developers can fully utilize their architectural features.

Compilers take source code written by programmers and turn it into machine code understood by a processor. The Intel C++ and Fortran Compilers for Linux provide developers with several performance-enhancing optimization features first introduced with the Intel compilers for Windows, including interprocedural optimization, auto-vectorization, and profile-guided optimization. The new compilers also offer OpenMP support with high-level directives that simplify development of applications for multiprocessor computers.

A Linux-based debugger with the Intel C++ and Fortran compilers has also been added, and Intel is working with Caldera on enhancements to gdb, the industry standard debugger on Linux, to support improved Fortran debugging and the new C++ application binary interface.

Available in September on the Intel Website and from software resellers, the Intel C++ and Intel Fortran Compilers for Linux each list for $399 or $499 for a CDROM kit. Intel offers additional software development products including the Intel VTune Performance Analyzer, Intel compilers for Windows, and Intel Performance Libraries.

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