Recipe for Baking a GCC - Essential Components and Community Organization

Explore the essential components that make up the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in this 44-minute conference talk from Kernel Recipes 2025. Discover the key "ingredients" required to build and maintain GCC, including source code management, external dependencies, project infrastructure, and development tools. Learn about the community organization and operational practices that sustain this decades-old yet continuously evolving compiler ecosystem. Gain insights into the collaborative processes that maintain the numerous components comprising GCC and its related tools. The presentation concludes with updates on recent developments, including GPU code offloading capabilities, the integration of GCC with Rust programming language support, and GCC's Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) implementation, providing a comprehensive overview of both the foundational elements and cutting-edge advances in modern compiler technology.