I don't have a Raspberry Pi 2 yet, but was wondering what code gcc will produce.
Many of my programs use WiringPi and if I compile this and my programs will they use ARM7 code, and thus be incompatible with ARM6. (I must admit I have never studied the codesets, so don't have any idea what the differences may be.)
The gcc documentation explains this in detail. Basically, you can tell the compiler to forcibly use armv6:
gcc -march=armv6 -c foo.c -o foo.o
You can also let gcc try to autodetect the current architecture:
gcc -march=native -c foo.c -o foo.o
I'm sure it can. It doesn't appear to do so by default on the current Pi 2 B.
I just compiled the same sources on a B+ and a Pi 2 B.
B+
harry /ram $ ls -l *o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 27604 Feb 9 09:20 command.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 2052 Feb 9 09:21 pig2vcd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 36144 Feb 9 09:20 pigpiod_if.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 5792 Feb 9 09:21 pigpiod.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 154712 Feb 9 09:20 pigpio.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 4904 Feb 9 09:21 pigs.o
-rwxr-xr-x 1 joan pi 182052 Feb 9 09:21 x_pigpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 32324 Feb 9 09:21 x_pigpiod_if.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan pi 31784 Feb 9 09:21 x_pigpio.o
harry /ram $ file command.o
command.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
harry /ram $
Pi 2 B
joan@paul /ram $ ls -l *.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 27920 Feb 9 09:19 command.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 2052 Feb 9 09:19 pig2vcd.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 31932 Feb 9 09:19 pigpiod_if.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 5780 Feb 9 09:19 pigpiod.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 158696 Feb 9 09:19 pigpio.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 5080 Feb 9 09:19 pigs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 34756 Feb 9 09:19 x_pigpiod_if.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 joan joan 34088 Feb 9 09:19 x_pigpio.o
joan@paul /ram $ file command.o
command.o: ELF 32-bit LSB relocatable, ARM, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
joan@paul /ram $
I copied pigs and pigpiod from the Pi 2 B to the B+ and the executables appeared to run ok.
Read into that what you can.
gcc -Q --help=target which lists -march=armv6. gcc -v implies that gcc was configured with this.
– Milliways
Feb 10 '15 at 02:22
gcc will produce ARMv7 code for the Raspberry Pi 2. Assuming you are compiling on a RPi2, gcc-4.8 and g++-4.8 support -march=native, which means you don't need to worry about specific compiler architecture and cpu flags for code running on the RPi2. (See here for how to install gcc/g++ 4.8.)
I just did a test build of the Icarus Verilog codebase with the following:
$ ./configure CXX=g++-4.8 CC=gcc-4.8 CFLAGS='-march=native -O3' CPPFLAGS='-march=native -O3'
$ make -j 4
The gcc command line here will display which flags -march=native will activate.
-march=native– Milliways Feb 09 '15 at 09:57