Nick Clifton

Born in Canada, raised in the UK. Joined Cygnus in the US, which then became part of Red Hat. Now back in the UK, working remotely and enjoying every minute of it.

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Summer 2017 GNU Toolchain Update Part 3

Nick Clifton

(Part 3)The GNU Toolchain is a collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. The tools are often packaged together due to their common use for developing software applications, operating systems, and low-level software for embedded systems.

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Spring 2017 GNU Toolchain Update Part 5

Nick Clifton

The GNU Toolchain is a collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. The tools are often packaged together due to their common use for developing software applications, operating systems, and low-level software for embedded systems.

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November 2016 GNU Toolchain Update Part 2

Nick Clifton

(Part 2)The GNU Toolchain is a collection of  programming tools produced by the GNU Project. The tools are often packaged together due to their common use for developing software applications, operating systems, and low level software for embedded systems.

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August 2016 GNU Toolchain Update Part 1

Nick Clifton

The GNU Toolchain is a collection of  programming tools produced by the GNU Project. The tools are often packaged together due to their common use for developing software applications, operating systems, and low level software for embedded systems.

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April/May 2016 GNU Toolchain Update Part 2

Nick Clifton

Introduction The GNU Toolchain is a collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. The tools are often packaged together due to their common use for developing software applications, operating systems, and low level software for embedded systems. This blog is part of a regular series covering the latest changes and improvements in the components that make up this Toolchain. Apart from the announcement of new releases however, the features described here are at the very bleeding edge of...

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February/March 2016 GNU Toolchain Update Part 1

Nick Clifton

Introduction The GNU Toolchain is a collection of programming tools produced by the GNU Project. The tools are often packaged together due to their common use for developing software applications, operating systems, and low level software for embedded systems. This blog is part of a regular series covering the latest changes and improvements in the components that make up this Toolchain. Apart from the announcement of new releases however, the features described here are at the very bleeding edge of...

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December '15/January '16 GNU Toolchain Update

Nick Clifton

First of all I have an apology to make. I managed to reformat my hard drive over the holidays, wiping away all of my notes for this blog. In particular I was contacted by a reader about an enhancement to gcc's inline assembler support which I have now totally lost. :-( So, dear reader, wherever you are, I apologise, and if you contact me again I will make sure that the extended asm enhancement gets mentioned in the next blog...

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October/November 2015 GNU Toolchain Update

Nick Clifton

Hi Everyone, Welcome to a new blog about changes and new features in the GNU toolchain (compiler, assembler, linker and debugger). My intention is to post monthly updates highlighting what is new in these tools so that developers can keep abreast of the developing technologies. This first post covers changes made to the development versions tools in October and November of this year. Earlier posts in this series can be found in my live journal blog here, but future posts...