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C6x Code Generation Tools v6.1
Code Generation Tools v6.1 is now available (1Q08) for the C6000 family.
This presentation provides a detailed technical overview of all the new v6.1 features release_610_overview_public.pdf
New Features in this release include:
- Profile directed optimization
- Compiler based Code Coverage Analysis
- New COFF Linker
- Support for the C674x ISA
- New C++ template library support in the RTS library
- Function entry/exit hooks
- Improvements to conditional linking of compiled C/C++ code
- Addition of the FUNC_ALWAYS_INLINE pragma
- Improved support for "restrict" qualifier
- Call-site based inlining
- Structure access optimizations
- GCC Language extensions
- SIMD optimizations
- -mf compiler option for controlling code size.