TDM-GCC is a compiler suite for

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. TDM-GCC is a redistribution of components that are freely available elsewhere. A large difference is that it changes the default GCC libraries to be statically linked, and use a shared memory region for

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IDEs that come bundled with TDM-GCC

* Code::Blocks * Dev-C++

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IDEs that come bundled with TDM-GCC

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