Arm Compiler

Making your C/C++ code run efficiently on Arm processors has been our mission for over 25 years. To date, billions of products have shipped with code built by Arm C/C++ compilers across a wide range of applications, from life supporting cardiac pacemakers to mobile phones. Trust your application to the toolchain developed by true experts in Arm architecture.
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Arm Compiler

Performance, code density, architectural accuracy and safety for C and C++ bare-metal and embedded OS applications on Arm.

Earliest and most comprehensive support all Arm processors
Optimized Arm C libraries, linker and tools
Certified for use in most demanding safety applications

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Arm Compiler for HPC

Complete toolchain for development, porting and optimization of compute intensive workloads for Arm servers.

SVE and NEON vectorizing Linux user-space C/C++ toolchain
Arm Performance Libraries for core math computation
Instruction Emulator for SVE development on any Armv8-A hardware

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Compare Arm Compilers

  Arm Compiler Arm Compiler for HPC
Host architecture support
  IA 32/64 bits
(Cross development)		  Armv8-A 64 bits
(Native development)
Target architecture support    
     Armv8-A AArch64
Yes
 Yes
     Armv8-A AArch32
 Yes
  
     Armv8-R, Armv8-M
 Yes
  
     Armv7-A, Armv7-R, Armv7-M
Yes
 
     Armv6-M
Yes
 
     Legacy Arm architectures Yes1
 
Target software platform
 Firmware, RTOS
 Linux user space
Libraries    
     C/C++ libraries Yes Yes
     HPC math libraries
Arm Performance Libraries 
Auto-vectorization    
     NEON Yes
 Yes
     Scalable Vector Extension (SVE)
 Yes
 Yes 
Safety certification support Yes2

Support and maintenance
Yes
 Yes
Long-term maintenance branch
Yes


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1 Available in Arm Compiler 5 and previous versions. 2 Available in Arm Compiler 5. Announced for Q2 2017 in Arm Compiler 6.

 

     ARMv8
     ARMv8