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Re: Codewarrior Vs GCC for embedded powerpc development
- From: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>
- To: Amit Malyala <amitmalyala at gmail dot com>
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 10:24:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] Codewarrior Vs GCC for embedded powerpc development
- References: <104d360f05010517131048cc1b@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 02:13:30AM +0100, Amit Malyala wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have a questiong regarding develpment of software for the Motorola
> mpc500 family of microcontrollers.
>
> I want to compare codewarrior with GCC for developing software for
> embeddd applications. I am considering using gcc for a project on
> qspi communication of the mpc555 to sd cards.
>
> Please compare them in terms of usability , portability and any other
> features you might think , worth considering..
>
In terms of eCos, eCos uses gcc extensions which corewarrier will not
support. So i expect codewarrior will not produce working executables,
a big minor point for it.
Andrewy
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