Professional GCC support?

[Mike Bilow]

For ARM, CodeSourcery: http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp/platforms.html

They use the GNU tool chain to target EABI (bare metal), uClinux, or 
GNU/Linux.

-- Mike


On 2010-08-25 10:58, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> An excerpt from an email exchange where I work:
>
>    
>> A tool I just found out they spent $9k on (two floating licenses) called
>> IAR says this about language support:
>>
>> _http://www.iar.com/website1/1.0.1.0/50/1/_
>>
>>              " Language and standards
>>
>>              The C programming language as standardized by ISO/ANSI C94
>>              with selected features from C99
>>
>>              Embedded C++ extended with templates, namespaces, virtual
>>              and multiple inheritance and other C++ features that do not
>>              cause an overhead in size or speed.
>>
>>              Full Embedded C++ library containing string, streams etc.,
>>              as well as the Standard Template Library (STL)
>>
>>              IEEE-754 floating-point arithmetic
>>
>>              MISRA C checker for code quality control
>>
>>              Supports a wide range of industry-standard debug and image
>>              formats, compatible with most popular debuggers and
>>              emulators, including ELF/DWARF where applicable"
>>
>> Obviously there is also GCC for ARM processors. I was told IAR was
>> purchased because management wanted to make sure nothing was
>> holding up<name>  in his work with the SAM7x camera controller. I'm told
>> we can get support from IAR when we pay that much, and this does not
>> exist when we decide to use GCC.
>>      
> It is my belief that that last statement is wrong.  Can anyone point
> me to sources of professional support for GCC/G++ on embedded systems
> and some idea of what the pricing structure might be?  This would be
> for a C/C++ on bare metal environment.  Most of our work is on larger
> processors running Linux, but our "microcontrollers" have only
> recently started to be 32 bit systems that we might prefer to use GCC
> on.
>
> I'm looking for more than "yeah, someone will take your money".  I'm
> looking for something that provides a similar result to what is
> mentioned above.  It would need to be support that keeps us on
> schedules.
>
> Thanks!
> Ty
>
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