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s, compiler generators,

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, translators, tool foundations,

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, automatable command line interfaces ( shells), etc.

Ada Compilers

ALGOL 60 compilers

ALGOL 68 compilers

cf. ALGOL 68s specification and implementation timeline

Assemblers (Intel *86)

Assemblers (Motorola 68*)

Assemblers (Zilog Z80)

Assemblers (other)

BASIC compilers

BASIC interpreters

C compilers

Notes:

Source-to-source compilers

This list is incomplete. A more extensive list of source-to-source compilers can be found

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C++ compilers

Notes:

C# compilers

COBOL compilers

Common Lisp compilers

D compilers

DIBOL/DBL compilers

ECMAScript interpreters

Eiffel compilers

Forth compilers and interpreters

Fortran compilers

Go compilers

Haskell compilers

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compilers

Lisaac compiler

Pascal compilers

Perl Interpreters

PHP compilers

PL/I compilers

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compilers and interpreters

Rust compilers

Smalltalk compilers

Tcl Interpreters

DCL Interpreters

Rexx Interpreters

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compilers

Open source compilers

Production quality,

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compilers. * Amsterdam Compiler Kit (ACK) , Pascal, Modula-2, Occam, and BASIC nix-like* Clang C/C++/Objective-C Compiler * AMD Optimizing C/C++ Compiler *

FreeBASIC FreeBASIC is a free and open source multiplatform compiler and programming language based on BASIC licensed under the GNU GPL for Microsoft Windows, protected-mode MS-DOS (DOS extender), Linux, FreeBSD and Xbox. The Xbox version is no longer m ...

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OS/Linux/Windows*

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ascal OS/Linux/Windows(32/64/CE)/MacOS/NDS/GBA/..(and many more)* GCC: C, C++ (G++), Java ( GCJ), Ada (

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), Objective-C, Objective-C++, Fortran (

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), and Go (GCCGo); also available, but not in standard are: Modula-2, Modula-3, Pascal, PL/I, D, Mercury, VHDL; Linux, the BSDs, OS X, NeXTSTEP, Windows and BeOS, among others * Local C compiler inux, SPARC, MIPS* The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure which is also frequently used for research *

Portable C Compiler The Portable C Compiler (also known as pcc or sometimes pccm - portable C compiler machine) is an early compiler for the C programming language written by Stephen C. Johnson of Bell Labs in the mid-1970s, based in part on ideas proposed by Alan S ...

nix-like*

Open Watcom Watcom C/C++ (currently Open Watcom C/C++) is an integrated development environment (IDE) product from Watcom International Corporation for the C, C++, and Fortran programming languages. Watcom C/C++ was a commercial product until it was disc ...

, C++, and Fortran indows and OS/2, Linux/FreeBSD WIP* TenDRA /C++ nix-like*

Tiny C Compiler The Tiny C Compiler (a.k.a. TCC, tCc, or TinyCC) is an x86, X86-64 and ARM processor C compiler initially written by Fabrice Bellard. It is designed to work for slow computers with little disk space (e.g. on rescue disks). Windows operating syst ...

inux, Windows*

Open64 Open64 is a free, open-source, optimizing compiler for the Itanium and x86-64 microprocessor architectures. It derives from the SGI compilers for the MIPS R10000 processor, called ''MIPSPro''. It was initially released in 2000 as GNU GPL softwar ...

, supported by AMD on Linux. *

XPL XPL is a programming language based on PL/I, a portable one-pass compiler written in its own language, and a parser generator tool for easily implementing similar compilers for other languages. XPL was designed in 1967 as a way to teach compiler d ...

PL/I dialect (several systems) *

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pple OSes, Linux, Windows (as of version 5.3)

Research compilers

Research compilers are mostly not robust or complete enough to handle real, large applications. They are used mostly for fast

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new language features and new optimizations in research areas. *

: A popular research compiler. Open64 merges the open source changes from the PathScale compiler mentioned. *

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: an open source compiler framework to generate source-to-source analyzers and translators for C/C++ and Fortran, developed at

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MILEPOST GCC {{Infobox software , name = MILEPOST GCC , logo = , developer = cTuning foundation / MILEPOST consortium , released = 2009 , latest release version = 4.4.x , latest release dat ...

: interactive plugin-based open-source research compiler that combines the strength of GCC and the flexibility of the common

Interactive Compilation Interface The Interactive Compilation Interface (ICI) is a plugin system with a high-level compiler-independent and low-level compiler-dependent API to transform current black-box compilers into collaborative modular interactive toolsets. It was developed b ...

that transforms production compilers into interactive research toolsets. *

- a plugin system with high-level API to transform production-quality compilers such as GCC into powerful and stable research infrastructure while avoiding developing new research compilers from scratch * Phoenix optimization and analysis framework by Microsoft *

Edison Design Group The Edison Design Group (EDG) is a company that makes compiler front ends (preprocessing and parsing) for C++ and formerly Java and Fortran. Their front ends are widely used in commercially available compilers and code analysis tools. Users inclu ...

: provides production-quality front end compilers for C, C++, and Java (a number of the compilers listed on this page use front end source code from

). Additionally,

makes their proprietary software available for research uses.

Footnotes

References

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External links

List of C++ compilers
maintained by C++'s inventor,

Bjarne Stroustrup Bjarne Stroustrup (; ; born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, most notable for the invention and development of the C++ programming language. As of July 2022, Stroustrup is a professor of Computer Science at Columbia Universit ...

List of free C/C++ compilers and interpreters

List of compiler resources
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Compilers In computing, a compiler is a computer program that translates computer code written in one programming language (the ''source'' language) into another language (the ''target'' language). The name "compiler" is primarily used for programs that ...