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The GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain is a ready-to-use, open-source suite of tools for C, C++ and assembly programming. The GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain targets the 32-bit Arm Cortex-A, Arm Cortex-M, and Arm Cortex-R processor families. The GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain includes the GNU Compiler (GCC) and is available free of charge directly from Arm for embedded software development on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X operating systems.

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Version 6-2017-q1-update

Released: February 23, 2017

What's new in 6-2017-q1-update

 

Features:

  • All GCC 6 features, plus latest mainline feature:
    + Full Armv8-M support including atomics and Security Extensions
    + Arm PURECODE support for Armv7-M and Armv8-M Mainline
    + Co-processor intrinsics support
    + Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 support
    + -mthumb optional for Cortex-M devices
  • Support for OS-retargeting of locking routines in newlib

Important bugs fixed in 6 update 1 release:

  • Fix Mac GDB crash with invalid commands
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1655778
  • Fix Windows wildcard support
  • Fix selection of newlib.h variant with nano.specs and g++
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1661882
  • Allow VCMP immediate without prefix in unified syntax
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1641333

Known Changes and Issues:

  • Thumb1 code size regression due to new register allocation: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59535
  • Multilib is now enabled with --with-multilib-list=rmprofile when building the toolchain from source

Windows 32-bit
File: gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update-win32.exe (81.80 MB)
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Windows ZIP
File: gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update-win32-zip.zip (124.26 MB)
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Linux 64-bit
File: gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update-linux.tar.bz2 (95.60 MB)
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Mac OS X 64-bit
File: gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update-mac.tar.bz2 (99.34 MB)
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Source Invariant
File: gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q1-update-src.tar.bz2 (184.75 MB)
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Release Note for GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain Downloads 6-2017-q1-update

This release includes the following items:
* Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Windows host
* Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Linux host
* Bare metal EABI pre-built binaries for running on a Mac OS X host
* Source code package (together with build scripts and instructions to setup build environment), composed of:

  * gcc : ARM/embedded-6-branch revision 245512
    http://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches/ARM/embedded-6-branch/

  * binutils : master
    git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git commit 82f83aa4df8dbb68b769df3dd96a9375a64ba38f

  * newlib and newlib-nano :
    git://sourceware.org/git/newlib-cygwin.git commit e046e4de145009ae6baf27f8e0553a666e6a8d3d

  * gdb : 7.12 without target sim support
    git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git commit 872656e2af9e4220574fd96a65c576a0685f2af8

  * expat 2.1.1 :
    http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/project/expat/expat/2.1.1/expat-2.1.1.tar.bz2

  * gmp 6.1.0 :
    ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/gmp-6.1.0.tar.bz2

  * libelf 0.8.13 :
    http://www.mr511.de/software/libelf-0.8.13.tar.gz

  * libiconv 1.14 :
    http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libiconv/libiconv-1.14.tar.gz

  * mpc 1.0.3 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpc-1.0.3.tar.gz

  * mpfr 3.1.4 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/mpfr-3.1.4.tar.bz2

  * isl 0.15 : ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/infrastructure/isl-0.15.tar.bz2

  * zlib 1.2.8
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/zlib/1.2.8/zlib-1.2.8.tar.gz/download

Supported hosts:
* Windows 7 32/64 bits (with installer and alternative zip package)
* Linux 64 bits
  - Ubuntu 14.04 or later (tarball)
  - Ubuntu 14.04/16.04/16.10 (tarball and PPA)
  - RHEL 7 (tarball)
* Mac OS X 10.7.3 and newer 64 bits (tarball)

Supported target OS:
* Bare metal EABI only

Features:
* All GCC 6 features, plus latest mainline features:
  + Full Armv8-M support including atomics and Security Extensions
  + Arm PURECODE support for Armv7-M and Armv8-M Mainline
  + Co-processor intrinsics support
  + Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 support
  + -mthumb optional for Cortex-M devices
* Support for OS-retargeting of locking routines in newlib

Tests:
* Tested on a variety of Cortex-M0/M0+/M3/M4/M7/A9 boards
* Tested on Qemu
* Tested on Arm Fast Models

Important bugs fixed in 6 update 1 release:

* Fix Mac GDB crash with invalid commands
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1655778
* Fix Windows wildcard support
* Fix selection of newlib.h variant with nano.specs and g++
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1661882
* Allow VCMP immediate without prefix in unified syntax
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+bug/1641333

 Known Changes and Issues:
* Thumb1 code size regression due to new register allocation:
  https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59535
* Multilib is now enabled with --with-multilib-list=rmprofile when building the toolchain from source