Professional GCC support?

Dan Jenkins dan at rastech.com
Wed Aug 25 18:16:16 EDT 2010


  Tyson Sawyer writes:
> 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.

On 8/25/2010 12:10 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote:
> I'm not sure of specific details off the top of my head, but some names
> that come to mind: Monta Vista, Wind River, Allegro Consultants,
> Red Hat (GNUPro?); there are some others listed at the FSF's
> Service Directory:
>
>      http://www.fsf.org/resources/service
>
>
> Could also try finding out where the active GCC maintainers all work ;)
In my experience with Monta Vista and Wind River behave the same way 
regarding GCC support. Monta Vista support was effectively non-existent, 
however, I do believe a large issue was the project manager, who refused 
to allow anyone, other than him, access for support.



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