Re: STM32 ARM toolset advice?

On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:01:31 -0700, "John Speth" <johnspeth@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

(Not to start a tools war but)

I'm about to start a project that will use the STM32 ARM from ST. IAR and
Keil both supply high quality tool sets for the STM32. I've used both
toolsets' evaluation copies. I believe I'd be satisfied buying any one over
the other.

Can anyone make any comments why one might be better than the other?

At this point, it's a flip of the coin. I'd like to hear some practical
opinions of current users to help tip the scales.


Keil has been bought by ARM, and AFAIK they now use the compiler from
ARM. Apparently this compiler generates the best code for ARM's CPUs.
GCC Generates quite good code for the ARM these days. The biggest
drawback is the use of newlib. Rowley provides a nice IDE with GCC,
and their own library, which removes the one disadvantage of using
GCC. Their product is also available for Windows and Linux.

Regards
Anton Erasmus



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