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Code Gen Tools V7.0.X Missing

Chris Nielsen
Intellectual 605 points

Hello.  We are in an emergency debug crunch and trying to get a new PC station up with CCS and the Code Gen Tools we've been using for a few months (v7.0.X) have disappeared off your website.

This link used to work:

https://www-a.ti.com/downloads/sds_support/CodeGenerationTools.htm

Has there been a policy change? Do you know what happened?

We need a working link FAST.  Thanks, Chris

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    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    That link is for the Update Advisor for CCS 3.x. The C6000 Codegen tools v7.0.x is not officially compatible with CCS v3, hence is not available at that link. With CCS4, it should automatically check for and find that version of codegen tools.

    You can also get compiler downloads from this page: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Compiler_Releases 

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Intellectual 605 points

    We are doing maintenance on a legacy product and for various reasons we have to stay with CCS V3.3.

    We have been using v7.0.1 with CCS V3.3 -- is this known to cause issues and we absolutely shouldn't be using v7.0.1?  Is v6.1.19 the latest release known to be compatible with CCS V3.3?

    I'm a bit confused since CCS V3.3 and v7.0.1 appear to have been working well for us for several months.  Can you describe the nature of the incompatibility?

    Are there compiler bug fixes in the v7.0.X Code Gen Tools that we won't be able to get in v6.1.19?

    Or, another way to put my question, we are in a production situation and must stay with CCS V3.3; what Code Gen Tool version do you recommend?

    Thanks, Chris

  • 0 in reply to Chris Nielsen
    Intellectual 605 points

    You said that v7.0.x is "not officially compatible" with CCS V3.3.  Are you delicately trying to say that it's a better compiler core but really not intended to work with CCS V3.3 as opposed to it won't actually work.  For new designs, we will try to move to CCS V4, but must stay at V3.3 due to legacy issues on this old project.  Thanks, Chris

  • 0 in reply to Chris Nielsen
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    OctalRules said:
    Are you delicately trying to say that it's a better compiler core but really not intended to work with CCS V3.3 as opposed to it won't actually work. 

    Yes. CGT 7.0.x has not been tested with CCS 3.3 but that doesn't mean it won't work with it. If it has been working well for you so far then you should be ok.

    A couple of things come to mind that you should be aware of and watch out for when using it with CCS 3.3:

    - Some newly added options would not be visible from within the project build environment in CCS3.  If there is a new option you need to use, you would need to manually add it to your build options in the command window
    - There could possibly be some debug issues.  There have been updates to the DWARF debug format since CCS3, as well as DWARF bug fixes, so debugging may not always work as expected.