From: Ilija Kocho <ilijak@siva.com.mk>
To: eCos developers <ecos-devel@ecos.sourceware.org>
Subject: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F106345.4080902@siva.com.mk> (raw)
Hi colleagues
Our GCC 4.3.2 is ageing and perhaps we should consider an upgrade.
My motive is it's lacking of support for Cortex-M4 SIMD (aka DSP) and
FPU instructions, but I think that other architectures shall gain from
newer compiler too. I have made some signal processing tests with GCC
4.6.2 against current eCos compiler and they show performance gain even
with Cortex-M3 setting, though moderate. Performance is considerable
when Cortex-M4 setting is selected and is tremendous, as expected, when
SIMD are used. Recently introduced Cortex-M products with FPU (Kinetis
K70, K61, STM32F4) will further emphasise the benefit.
Another reason, maybe not so important, is that GCC 4.3 is not
officially supported any more.
Regarding this, I state my wish that we move to the latest stable GCC
release, that is at present rel. 4.6.2, accompanied with respective
binutils. I have tested binutils 2.21 but in meantime 2.22 has been
released. Of course, the list wouldn't be complete without the latest GDB.
Looking forward for your comments.
Ilija
next reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 17:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 17:01 Ilija Kocho [this message]
2012-01-13 18:54 ` Bernard Fouché
2012-01-13 19:39 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-13 19:09 ` Frank Pagliughi
2012-01-13 19:45 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-14 10:22 ` John Dallaway
2012-01-14 16:02 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-15 17:36 ` Grant Edwards
2012-01-15 18:42 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-15 21:39 ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-01-23 1:01 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-15 22:21 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23 1:07 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-15 22:21 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-16 15:20 ` Grant Edwards
2012-01-16 20:43 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-16 21:11 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-17 9:58 ` Bernard Fouché
2012-01-17 10:38 ` Paul Beskeen
2012-01-17 12:28 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-23 0:59 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-14 16:25 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23 1:13 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-23 18:40 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-23 19:29 ` Jonathan Larmour
2012-01-25 12:30 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-01-25 20:59 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-26 13:36 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-01-26 20:18 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-02-13 22:02 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing [Was Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6] Ilija Kocho
2012-02-20 16:00 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-02-20 20:45 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-02 16:36 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-03 13:32 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-04 0:10 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-04 17:49 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-04 23:08 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-04 19:37 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing John Dallaway
2012-03-04 23:47 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-05 8:00 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 13:51 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 11:58 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-07 13:01 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-07 13:39 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-07 13:13 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-12 16:43 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-16 15:05 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-08 17:28 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-09 9:39 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-09 17:15 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-10 17:16 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-12 16:12 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-13 13:31 ` Alex Schuilenburg
2012-03-13 14:16 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-13 17:47 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-15 8:50 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-17 14:50 ` Sergei Gavrikov
2012-03-17 20:58 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-17 16:44 ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-03-18 19:10 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.3-20120315 [Was Re: eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing] Ilija Kocho
2012-04-04 12:57 ` Lambrecht Jürgen
2012-04-04 13:18 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-05-31 8:42 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.3-20120315 and link time optimization Bernard Fouché
2012-03-05 8:30 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-05 8:56 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-05 9:50 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-05 9:55 ` Anders Montonen
2012-03-05 14:20 ` John Dallaway
2012-03-05 10:16 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-03-05 12:56 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-03-03 12:58 ` eCos GNU tools 4.6.2-20120125 ready for testing [Was Re: Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6] Sergei Gavrikov
2012-01-17 9:37 ` Gnutools: consideration for upgrade to GCC 4.6 Tomas Frydrych
2012-01-17 16:10 ` Stanislav Meduna
2012-01-17 16:25 ` Tomas Frydrych
2012-01-17 16:45 ` Ilija Kocho
2012-01-20 14:42 ` Frank Pagliughi
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