GCC verbose mode output explanation
The first part is the version and configuration data for the compiler driver (that’s the gcc binary, which is not actually the compiler itself): Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686/3.3.1/specs Configured with: ../configure –prefix=/usr Thread model: posix gcc version 3.3.1 Then it prints the command it uses to call the real compiler, cc1: /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686/3.3.1/cc1 -quiet -v -D__GNUC__=3 … Read more