arm cortex a9 c++ support

I believe an answer regarding the tools provided by ARM will be given by someone much more qualified than I; perhaps christopherseidl or reinhardkeil.

Until then, I would like to mention that GCC can be used for building Cortex-A9 code. GCC is the compiler I use myself - because I am working on a non-Windows platform.

I believe it's particularly important to mention the open source tools, because much of the open source "source code" you can find, will build under these two well-known compilers.

GNU's Web-site contains information on GCC's C++11 (details) and C++14 (details) support.

Though I cannot use clang / LLVM myself, I would like to mention this as well, since it's becoming very popular.

Clang / LLVM also builds Cortex-A9 code and you can find details on its C++11 and C++14 support here.

I believe an answer regarding the tools provided by ARM will be given by someone much more qualified than I; perhaps christopherseidl or reinhardkeil.

Until then, I would like to mention that GCC can be used for building Cortex-A9 code. GCC is the compiler I use myself - because I am working on a non-Windows platform.

I believe it's particularly important to mention the open source tools, because much of the open source "source code" you can find, will build under these two well-known compilers.

GNU's Web-site contains information on GCC's C++11 (details) and C++14 (details) support.

Though I cannot use clang / LLVM myself, I would like to mention this as well, since it's becoming very popular.

Clang / LLVM also builds Cortex-A9 code and you can find details on its C++11 and C++14 support here.

are there any other ways to use C++11 C++14 on arm cortex a9 without having Clang / LLVM?

Hello, are there anything inconvenient with Clang/LLVM?

Best regards,

Yasuhiko Koumoto.

i wonder how good the debugging tools are with clang ...are there any disadvantages compared to the standard compiler?

christopherseidl and reinhardkeil can you comment?

Hello mike,

don't you say about the compiler?

Do you want any useful tool chains?

Best regards,

Yasuhiko Koumoto.

Hello Mike,

I'm not a compiler expert. I suppose this should be answered by stefanocadario.

Kind regards,

Christopher

im looking for different compiler and toolchain options. for two different os hosts: windows 7, linux

Christopher Seidl and Reinhard Keil can you comment?

Hi Mike,

       both ARM Compiler 5.05 and ARM Compiler 6.01 partially support C++11 language features.

The specific list of what is supported in ARM Compiler 5.05 can be found here: http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.dui0472k/chr1407404265784.html

ARM Compiler 6.01 is based on LLVM/clang so the C++11/C++14 features supported by LLVM/clang 3.5 should be in ARM Compiler 6.01 too: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html

An important aspect to highlight is that the Rogue Wave Standard C++ Library used by both ARM Compiler 5.05 and ARM Compiler 6.01 does not support C++11/14 functionalities; this means that some of the features dependent on runtime libraries (such as exception) won't work. We are working on this at the moment and we expect to have full support for C++11 in ARM Compiler 6 this year.

ARM Compiler 6.01 fully supports ARMv7-A cores (such as Cortex-A9) and you might find more advantages than disadvantages in using it comparing to GCC: What’s new in ARM Compiler 6.01 Comparison of errors, warnings and diagnostics in ARM Compiler 6

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Stefano

In my experience, CLANG/LLVM is a superior compiler to GCC. Faster compiles, better error messages, more features (e.g. static analysis of your code). LLVM is based on the llvm.org project, which also has better licensing than GCC.