Arm Development Studio forum Key difference between GCC arm-none-eabi and arm-eabi

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Key difference between GCC arm-none-eabi and arm-eabi

techguyz over 10 years ago

Hi Experts,

For Cortex R and M processors Linaro has recommended the GCC arm-none-eabi 4.9 whereas for A series processors it is recommending normal GCC eabi.

what is the key difference between the same ?

Regards,

Techguyz

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Alban Rampon over 10 years ago +1

in arm-none-eabi , it targets for ARM architecture, has no vendor, does not target an operating system and complies with the ARM Embedded ABI . More in Freescale 's community: What's the difference between...
Peter Harris over 10 years ago in reply to Jerome Decamps - 杜尚杰 +1 verified

I think the difference is calling convention and availability of system calls for the C library to use. With "arm-eabi-gcc" you have the Linux system C library which will make calls into the kernel IOCTLs...