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How/why can Firefox packages work on all Linuxes?

How/why can a Firefox 64bit (or 32bit) package work on different Linux distributions since each Linux distribution has a different version for gcc, glibc, linux kernel, etc. ?
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Why does FreeBSD use the GPL-licensed GCC?

Why does FreeBSD use GCC as its default compiler? I am under the impression that a core pillar of the FreeBSD philosophy is not to use any GNU software and in particular, GPL code. Yet GCC which is ...
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Linking issues with libjpeg

I have a game I'm writing which recently required libjpeg. I wrote some code using libjpeg on some-other-machine and it worked as expected. I pulled the code to this machine and tried compiling and ...
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Does optimizing for size reduce runtime memory usage as well as binary size?

Does optimizing for size with gcc -Os only reduce the binary size of a program, or does it reduce its runtime memory usage as well? I know what exactly the results are depend on the specific code, but ...
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How to recompile a Debian package with -Os?

There are a few larger programs I am interested in compiling with -Os. The normal method I use to patch/recompile programs is apt-get source followed by dpkg-buildpackage. I learned from the ...
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How do I install GCC on a system with no compiler?

I've been messing around with my NAS which runs on Linux. I have root access, but there is no compiler. I seem to remember something about being able to compile on another system, but I'm not certain. ...
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Compiling GNU/Linux with -O3 optimization

It's said that compiling GNU tools and Linux kernel with -O3 gcc optimization option will produce weird and funky bugs. Is it true? Has anyone tried it or is it just a hoax?