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GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection (Originally GNU C Compiler) See the related link.

It is a collection of "compiler software", that is used to convert human readable source code into binary programs the computer can actually understand and run. it supports several programming languages like C, C++, Java, FORTRAN, etc.

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