Support for Cortex-M0+

[Emmanuel Blot]

Hi,

Is it possible to use ecc to cross-compile for Cortex-M0+ targets?
I’ve been looking to the blog pages, and I’m not sure if it is easily achievable.

The only “officially” supported Cortex-M series is the Cortex-M3, which use a different ARM architecture.

I have some additional questions:
– what does mean the “engeabi” target suffix – i.e. how it differs from the ARM EABI. It seems it is based on linux that is. gnueabi, not EABI. Is this correct?
– there is no libecc/lib/arm32v6-linux directory, although there is a libecc/config/arm32v6-linux that seems to refer to it
– V6 seems to indicate a … ARMv6 architecture, but the ELF tools report ARMv7 kind of binaries:

$ ecc-readelf -A libecc/lib/arm32v6sf-linux/crt1.o
Attribute Section: aeabi
File Attributes
  Tag_conformance: "2.09"
  Tag_CPU_name: "Cortex-A8"
  Tag_CPU_arch: v7
  Tag_CPU_arch_profile: Application
  Tag_ARM_ISA_use: Yes
  Tag_THUMB_ISA_use: Thumb-2
  Tag_FP_arch: VFPv3
  Tag_Advanced_SIMD_arch: NEONv1
  Tag_ABI_PCS_GOT_use: direct
  Tag_ABI_PCS_wchar_t: 4
  Tag_ABI_FP_denormal: Needed
  Tag_ABI_FP_exceptions: Needed
  Tag_ABI_FP_number_model: IEEE 754
  Tag_ABI_align_needed: 8-byte
  Tag_ABI_align_preserved: 8-byte, except leaf SP
  Tag_ABI_enum_size: int
  Tag_CPU_unaligned_access: v6
  Tag_ABI_FP_16bit_format: IEEE 754
  Tag_Virtualization_use: TrustZone

… any help would be useful

BTW, google found http://ellcc.org/ellcc/target_matrix.html but I’m not able to find a link to this page. Is it up-to-date?

Thanks a lot,
Manu

[Emmanuel Blot]

Update:
* http://ellcc.org/ellcc/target_matrix.html is in the SVN repository, me bad
* it seems an armv6m target should be defined to support Cortex-M0/M0+/M1
* major issue: Musl does not support Cortex-M* CPUs for now (planned for musl 1.1.17) but worst: it does not seem that Thumb1 support is planned at all, and several musl low-level pieces are written with 32bit ARM / Thumb2 ISA. This seems to be a real show-stopper 🙁

However, I would not need the a libc for a pure bare metal implementation. Only clang/llvm/compiler-rt are actually required.

Therefore my initial question should be rewritten as: is it possible to use ELLCC to build bare-metal projects without libecc for Cortex-M0/M0+/M1? It would be nice to keep using the ELLCC infrastructure even in this limited mode.

I guess the alternative is to build clang/llvm/compiler-rt from the sources, but that makes just-another-compiler installation and I do like ELLCC 🙂

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