Wind River Compiler

Benefits

• Superior performance and reduced footprint
  • Reduces hardware costs; can use lower-frequency devices and less memory
  • Helps develop competitive applications that run faster and include more functionality and features
  • Improves time-to-market and reduces risk; developers no longer need to tweak code at the last minute to meet aggressive performance goals
  • Improves code portability; automatically optimizes for a given target
• Flexibility
  • Lets you control the output of the compiler to match the specific requirements of your application and device
• Reliability
  • Highly reliable technology, certified for POSIX PSE52, that has been used to build mission-critical applications for more than 20 years
• Adherence to industry standards
  • Strictly adheres to the newest—as well as some older—industry standards to ease porting of applications
• Extended support service
  • Wind River Long-Term Support Service lengthens the support window for Wind River Compiler to meet your needs
  • The service provides custom bug-fixing and quality assurance to minimize the impact of compiler changes to your code

Features

• Selectable speed/size optimizations
• Strict adherence to standards: Latest ANSI C++ , ANSI C and older standards (Kernighan and Ritchie, System V.3 UNIX), Embedded Application Binary Interface (EABI)
• Flexible ASM macros for mixing C and assembly
• Profile-driven optimizations
• Multiple debugging options
• Position-independent code (PIC) and data (PID)
• Volatile keyword, or all memory is volatile
• Packed and byte-swapped structures
• Absolute addressing from C and assembler
• Extensive link command language for memory mapping
• Ability to generate PROMable code
• Support for multiple object module formats (ELF, COFF, IEEE-695, S-Records)
• Link-time lint checker
• Instruction-set simulation
• Converting and archiving of object files (ddump)

Target Architecture Support

• ARM
• ColdFire
• Intel Architecture/Pentium
• Intel XScale
• M*CORE
• MIPS
• Renesas M32R
• Renesas SuperH
• Motorola 68K
• PowerPC
• SPARC, SPARClite
• TriCore

History of the Wind River Compiler

The Wind River Compiler has a rich history resulting in the development of a stable and mature product for use in mission-critical products. Tomas Evensen created the compiler in the 1980s while at a Swedish computer and manufacturing firm, Dataindustrier AB. The product was then known as the Diab Compiler and was quickly adopted for use in embedded devices. The Diab Compiler technology was acquired in 2000 by Wind River. The product was renamed to Wind River Compiler and has been continuously maintained, improved, and enhanced. Today, Wind River Compiler is renowned for its ability to generate highly optimized code that has a small memory footprint and runs extremely fast. The compiler is an essential component of the development suite of companies designing and building advanced mission-critical products.