Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:36You would be advised to buy a board that comes with an IDE. Most IDEs come with a demo board. That way, you get tutorials, examples, debuggers and known hardware. Chris.
Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:34I suppose I should clarify and point out that I am using GCC and newlib. I'm not sure what toolchain you are using. Chris.
Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:34There are two things you need. 1. The linker needs to allocate some area. I have this in my linker (in the right place I might add!) Code:/* .heap section which is used for memory allocation */ .heap (NOLOAD) : { __...
Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:34Interesting benchmarks. I ask because on the one hand you see marketing material claiming that GCC isn't particularly good, yet every time I've examined the assembler output I've found it to be very clever. Further, I ...
Posted on May 17, 2011 at 13:34Are there any benchmarks comparing the various C compilers on Cortex? I'm particularly interested in various remarks saying GCC is poor, so I'd like to see some figures and compiler output examples.... Chris.