arduino / arduino/ArduinoCore-renesas
[Feature Request] Provide a much more up-to-date compiler (at least GCC 12)
- Dominant language
- C
- Stars
- 193
- Forks
- 112
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
This core (as well as many other Arduino cores) ships with GCC `7.2.1 20170904`.
```bash
~/.arduino15/packages/arduino/tools/arm-none-eabi-gcc/7-2017q4/bin/arm-none-eabi-g++ --version
arm-none-eabi-g++ (GNU Tools for Arm Embedded Processors 7-2017-q4-major) 7.2.1 20170904 (release) [ARM/embedded-7-branch revision 255204]
```
Meanwhile `arduino-pico` uses GCC 12 and [stm32duino](https://github.com/stm32duino/Arduino_Core_STM32) uses GCC 10 (at least).
I suggest updating tooling to GCC 12.
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Research direction
Start by locating where ArduinoCore-renesas selects the arm-none-eabi-gcc 7-2017q4 toolchain shown in the issue, then review how comparable Arduino cores provide newer compiler versions. Done means the core uses a GCC 12-era toolchain and its builds still complete successfully.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- c
- Domain
- build-system, embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100