Re: [arm-gnu] Compiling Safety Related Systems?

[42Bastian <list-bastian.schick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Brian

>   I am working on a product that needs to be IEC-61508 SIL 2 compliant. 
> The documentation states that the compiler has to be either SIL2 certified 
> or have been in use on many (3 or more) products without having negative 
> (or known) issues.
> 
>   So my question to everyone is:  Has anyone produced a safety related 
> product using the Sourcery G++ Lite 2009q1-161compiler and a STM32F103RB 
> processor?

We at SCIOPTA were in discussion with TUV about this while certifying our
RTOS and it was clearly stated that GCC is not valid.
Reasons (also against RealView btw.) were:

- missing proven-in-use numbers
There are a lot of users for "GCC" but not "known" number.

- error/defect information (for a certain build)

- some "vague" doubts

So we went for IAR (or DIAB in case of PowerPC)

But the commercial version of CS might work out.

-- 
42Bastian
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