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Evaluation or Free compiler ?

Michael Giacomelli
Note: This was originally posted on 16th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

I've been working on porting various ARM DSP optimizations to different open source libraries to reduce power consumption on ARM devices.  Unfortunately while I'm happy with gcc, a lot of commercial users complain that things like ASM code don't link when used with the ARM ltd. compiler.  Since I don't have access to it I can't look into it.  This has led to a few commercial products shipping with poor performance and battery life.

Is it possible to get access to the official ARM compiler/assembler somehow for testing?  I'm a student with no money doing this for fun, so paying for it isn't going to work, but I don't need to actually do development, just testing so maybe theres some free tool available for doing this?

Thanks for any help.
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 27th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

    I'm not  sure. but you could use [url="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite_edition.html"]Sourcery G++ Lite Edition[/url]


    Thats a link to gcc.  As I said, I already have gcc working great.  I'd like to add support for the ARM commercial compiler. 

    P.S. See also [url="http://forums.arm.com/index.php?showtopic=14489"]forums.arm.com/index.php


    If I understand correctly, that would basically let me assemble my code using the ARM tools, but not actually compile or test a finished library due to the code size limitations.  Surely theres something a little better then this out there?  I'm not interested in evaluating ARM's tools, I want to add support for them to various libraries people want to use them with.
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 27th October 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

    I'm not  sure. but you could use [url="http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/lite_edition.html"]Sourcery G++ Lite Edition[/url]


    Thats a link to gcc.  As I said, I already have gcc working great.  I'd like to add support for the ARM commercial compiler. 

    P.S. See also [url="http://forums.arm.com/index.php?showtopic=14489"]forums.arm.com/index.php


    If I understand correctly, that would basically let me assemble my code using the ARM tools, but not actually compile or test a finished library due to the code size limitations.  Surely theres something a little better then this out there?  I'm not interested in evaluating ARM's tools, I want to add support for them to various libraries people want to use them with.
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