If you have an opinion about C++, chances are you either love it for its extensiveness and versatility, or you hate it for its bloated complexity and would rather stick to alternative languages on ...

Microsoft aims to replace its legacy C and C++ code with the Rust programming language across its largest codebases by the end of the decade.

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of ...

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 ...

Windows 10 security: 'So good, it can block zero-days without being patched' Systems running the Windows 10 Anniversary Update were shielded from two exploits even before Microsoft had issued patches ...

Green Hills Software is now offering its optimising C and C++ compilers for 32-bit and 64-bit embedded processor architectures, including ARM, Intel and Power Architecture. The Compiler 2017.5 also ...

Absoft Corp. announced at this week’s Supercomputing 2004 Conference the release of new tools for its IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition and IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition compilers running on Mac OS X.

The GNU Compiler Collection will be refreshed with updated C++ standards compliance and improvements in parallelism and diagnostics. Described as a “major” release, GCC 6.1 leverages the C++ 14 ...

Older CPUs and some fairly modern microcontrollers are not made to readily support C compilers. Among those are the 1802, some 8-bit PICs, and the 6502 at the heart of the Commodore 64. That’s not to ...

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 ...