Re: [ECOS] ARM toolchain

[Jonathan Larmour <jifl at eCosCentric dot com>]

Patrick Doyle wrote:
> I am putting together a precompiled toolchain for use with the ARM and I was
> looking for recommendations about the "best" toolchain to use.  (For purely
> hysterical reasons,
Nice spelling typo :-).

> I have been using the uClinux toolchain based on
> binutils-2.10 and gcc-2.95.3).  The web page currently says that gcc-2.95.2
> and binutils-2.10.1 is the way to go.  I go back and forth on toolchain
> decisions "Latest and greatest" vs. "tried and true".  I am inclined to lean
> towards "tried and true" unless folks have strong suggestions otherwise.
With the upcoming beta we've been testing binutils 2.13.1, gdb 5.3 and gcc 
3.2.1. It works fine. Admittedly it didn't till recently, but we've been 
checking in the requisite fixes :-). With 2.0 beta the web pages will be 
updated accordingly (along with many other changes!).

Jifl
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