address sanitizer in ARM GNU-A 8.2-2018.11 arm-linux-gnueabihf

ichigo663

Hi all,

I'm trying to compile my application with -fsanitize but when linking it fails complaining that it cannot find any library for the linker flag '-lasan'. I did check and it seems that the ARM toolchain 8.2-2018.11 does not ship with…

Cross-compiling for Cortex-A9 with GCC

dsanz006

Arm offers 2 different GCC toolchains: one for Cortex-M/R devices and the other one for Cortex-A devices. However, in the Cortex-M/R toolchain documentation, it is specified that Cortex-A targets are accepted too, so this confuses me: why is there another…

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An update on GNU performance

Kyrylo Tkachov

Welcome back!

A lot has happened since the last GNU Tool chain performance update. The GCC and glibc communities have been hard at work since, improving the compiler and the library with new usability, language, debugging, security and a myriad of other features…

Pre-built GNU8 cross-toolchain by Arm for the A-profile Architecture now available

Ashok Bhat

We are pleased to announce the first Arm's release of pre-built GNU cross-toolchain for the A-profile cores: GCC 8.2-2018.08. The GNU Toolchain for the Cortex-A family is a ready-to-use, open source suite of tools for C, C++ and Assembly programming…

GNU toolchain performance in 2018

Kyrylo Tkachov

What is the GNU toolchain?

In this blog we will focus on two components of the GNU toolchain, the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and the GNU C library (glibc). A full toolchain contains several vital components like assemblers, linkers and debuggers, but in…

Compatibility between gcc-arm and ds-5 compiler

Sandeep

I am trying to build a static library with ARM DS-5, then link to this library from an executable which is built using GCC-arm.

I am able to build the static library with ARM-DS-5, but when I build my executable (which links to the static library) with…