Arm® code generation tools - compiler
ARM-CGT
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This product has been released to the market and is available for purchase. For some products, newer alternatives may be available.
Description
The TI Arm® C/C++ Compiler and Assembly Language Tools support development of applications for TI Arm-based platforms, especially those featuring TI Arm Cortex-M and Cortex-R series devices. The TI Arm C/C++ Compiler and Assembly Language Tools support all SimpleLink and Hercules platforms as well as other TI Arm-based processors such as the Sitara Arm Cortex A-series devices.
Features
- Available in release 20.2.0.LTS:
- Hex utility tool new option --cmac (cipher-based message authentication protocol) will apply cmac algorithm to user defined regions and generate cmac tags for secure boot support.
- Hex utility tool now supports output option --binary.
- Default file extension for compiler generated object files updated to .c.obj and .cpp.obj
- Available in Arm Code Generation Tools starting with v18.12.0.LTS:
- Linker generated ECC option
- New utilities: objcopy, objdump, readelf, size
- Available in Arm Code Generation Tools starting with release v18.1.0.LTS:
- C++ 2014 Support and C++ ABI Compatibility
- Support for Arm C Language Extensions (ACLE)
- Improved stack usage with inline functions
- Available in Arm Code Generation Tools starting with release v16.9.0.LTS:
- Improved Stack Usage Utilization
- 64-bit constant load to register
- Support for LZSS compression
- Compressed section alignment
- Improved inlining
- Removal of duplicate and unneeded compiler options
TI Compiler Support
- TI has an active, responsive E2E™ community, where support is available for TI compilers.
Long-term and short-term support
Long-term support (LTS) releases are actively maintained for approximately two years with reported defects being repaired as follows:
- Production stop defects are addressed within 2 weeks,
- Critical defects are addressed within 60 days, and
- Defect repairs are proactively applied to each release stream
- Only production stop defects may cause patch releases to be created,
- Patch releases for STS releases will not be planned, and
- Defect repairs will not be proactively applied to each release stream
- For more information about the distinction between LTS and STS compiler releases, please see the article: Introduction to LTS and STS Compiler Releases
What's Included
- Optimizing C/C++ Compiler
- Assembler
- Linker
- C/C++ standard header files
- C/C++ runtime libraries
- Object file display and manipulation utilities