Announcement: IBM C/C++ and Fortran compilers to adopt LLVM open-source infrastructure
What IBM XL C for AIX can do for your business
IBM® XL C for AIX® is a compiler that facilitates the creation and maintenance of C applications for IBM Power® Systems. It generates code that leverages the capabilities of the POWER8® architecture and maximizes your hardware utilization. Interested in support for POWER9™ and full C11 standard? You need the latest XL C/C++ for AIX! The same C compiler available in XL C for AIX is included by XL C/C++ for AIX. Trade-up part numbers or feature codes are offered to trade up from your existing XL C for AIX to the new XL C/C++ for AIX. See the announcement letter of IBM XL C/C++ for AIX 16.1.
Benefits
Maximize your Power hardware ROI
Capitalizes on the POWER8 architecture; offers automatic parallelization of sequential programs to exploit modern multi-core processors.
Optimize application performance
Provides industry leading advanced optimization technologies including the high-performance libraries, profile directed feedback (PDF) support, and interprocedural analysis (IPA).
Migrate applications to Power easily
Complies with the C99 and a subset of C11 programming language standards.
Improve developer productivity
Increases usability by providing diagnostic reports and symbolic debugger support; entity visibility attributes also improve efficiency of dynamic linking.
Obtain world-class IBM support
Comes with superior IBM service and support.
IBM XL C for AIX key features
- Exploitation of the POWER8 architecture
- Shared memory parallelization
- High-performance libraries
- Profile-directed feedback (PDF)
- Interprocedural analysis (IPA)
- Language standard compliance
- Diagnostic reports
- Symbolic debugger support
- Entity visibility attributes
Which option is right for you?
Authorized user
One license per unique user
Concurrent user
Shared access with multiple users