Compiler NEON support summary

Koen_Kooi2 · May 18, 2008, 12:12pm

Hi,

I spent the last few weeks testing different compilers and here's the
summary:

gcc 4.2.1: lacks armv7 and NEON support
gcc csl 2007q3 (4.2.1 based): working armv7 and working NEON

gcc 4.2.2: lacks armv7 and NEON support
gcc csl 2008q1 (4.2.3 based): working armv7, broken NEON[1]

gcc 4.3.0: working armv7, broken NEON[2]

So if you want to use NEON properly (-mpfu=neon -ftree-vectorize -
mfloat-abi=softfp) you should get the 2007q3 toolchain.

I'm keeping my eyes out for the pending gcc 4.3.1 release, since the
vectorizer is rumoured to work a lot better compared to 4.2.x
versions.

regards,

Koen