ARM Cortex-M Microcontroller startup files

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 02:12:11 UTC, Jens Bauer wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 at 00:34:42 UTC, Mike wrote:
>>
>> Given the other replies in this thread, this looks promising.  
>> However, I went to give it a test today, and found out my host 
>> PC's distribution (Arch Linux) hasn't yet released GCC 5.1; 
>> it's still in testing.
>
> You don't have to wait for an Arch Linux release of GCC 5.1, 
> because you're going to build it yourself anyway, right ?
> -It can be downloaded from 
> ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/gcc-5.1.0/gcc-5.1.0.tar.bz2

I always thought we needed to build our cross-compilers with the 
same version as the host in order to have confidence in the 
build.  Correct me if I'm wrong.

Mike