GCC

Abbreviation with 2 meanings

GCC
Stands forGulf Cooperation Council
Meanings2
CategoriesOrganizations & Companies, Technology & Computing

GCC has two meanings. It stands for Gulf Cooperation Council (international organization) or GNU Compiler Collection (programming).

Meanings of GCC at a glance

#GCC stands forContext
1Gulf Cooperation CouncilOrganizations & Companies › International Organization
2GNU Compiler CollectionTechnology & Computing › Programming

1. Gulf Cooperation Council

Organizations & Companies · International Organization Abbreviations

Political and economic alliance of six Arab Gulf states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Example: GCC countries agreed to coordinate their response to the regional crisis.

Founded in 1981, partly in response to the Iranian revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, it created a customs union and a joint defense force, Peninsula Shield. From 2017 to 2021 Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain, together with Egypt, cut ties with Qatar, a rift ended by the Al-Ula Declaration. Its official name is the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf.

2. GNU Compiler Collection

Technology & Computing · Programming Abbreviations

The free compiler suite from the GNU Project for C, C++, Fortran, Ada, Go and other languages, standard on most Linux systems and used to build the Linux kernel itself.

Example: Compile with gcc -O2 -Wall and fix every warning before submitting.

Released by Richard Stallman in 1987 as the GNU C Compiler and renamed as other languages were added. LLVM's Clang became its main competitor in the 2010s. The lowercase gcc is also the command that runs the C compiler.

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