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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Martin Licht" <licht@ins.uni-bonn.de>
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Subject: Re: Citing GCC
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* Martin Licht:

> I would like to cite GCC in my master thesis.
>
> Unfortunately, neither your FAQ nor Google have been able to help me.

Just cite the manual.  Something like this, depending on your citation
style:

| Richard M. Stallman et al., "Using the GNU Compiler Collection".
| Free Software Foundation, Boston, 2012.