Oracle Solaris Studio

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Oracle Solaris Studio
Developer(s) Oracle Corporation
Stable release 12.3[1] / December 14, 2011; 17 months ago (2011-12-14)
Operating system Solaris, OpenSolaris, RHEL, Oracle Linux[2]
Available in English, Japanese
Simplified Chinese
Type Compiler, debugger, software build, integrated development environment
License Free for download and use as described in the Sun Studio product license.
Website developers.sun.com/sunstudio

The Oracle Solaris Studio, formerly named Sun Studio, Sun WorkShop, Forte Developer, and SunPro Compilers, is a compiler suite which is Oracle Corporation's flagship software development product for the operating systems Solaris and Linux. The Oracle Solaris Studio software delivers optimizing compilers for C, C++, and Fortran, libraries, and performance analysis, and debugging tools for Solaris on SPARC, and both Solaris and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, including multi-core systems.

The Solaris Studio software suite is downloadable at no charge from a website.[3]

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Languages[edit]

Supported architectures[edit]

Components[edit]

The Solaris Studio is a suite of software products that includes:

  • C, C++, and Fortran compilers and support libraries
  • dbx and frontends
  • lint
  • IDE based on NetBeans
  • Performance analyzer[4]
  • Thread analyzer
  • Sun performance library
  • Distributed make[5]

Compiler optimizations[edit]

A common optimizing backend is used for code generation.

A high-level intermediate representation called Sun IR is used, and high-level optimizations done in the iropt (intermediate representation optimizer) component are operated at the Sun IR level. Major optimizations include:

OpenMP[edit]

The OpenMP shared memory parallelization API is native to all three Solaris Studio compilers.

Code coverage[edit]

Main article: Tcov

Tcov, a source code coverage analysis and statement-by-statement profiling tool, comes as a standard utility with Sun Studio suite. Tcov generates exact counts of the number of times each statement in a program is executed and annotates source code to add instrumentation.

The tcov utility gives information on how often a program executes segments of code. It produces a copy of the source file, annotated with execution frequencies. The code can be annotated at the basic block level or the source line level. As the statements in a basic block are executed the same number of times, a count of basic block executions equals the number of times each statement in the block is executed.[6] The tcov utility does not produce any time-based data.

GCCFSS[edit]

The GCC for SPARC Systems (GCCFSS) compiler uses GNU Compiler Collection's (GCC) front end with the Sun Studio compiler's code-generating back end. Thus, GCCFSS is able to handle GCC-specific compiler directives, while it is also able to take advantage of the compiler optimizations in the Sun Studio compiler's back end. This greatly facilitates the porting of GCC-based applications to SPARC systems.

GCCFSS 4.2 adds a new functionality as a cross compiler; SPARC binaries can be generated on an x86 (or x64) machine running Solaris.[7]

Research platform[edit]

Before its cancellation, the Rock would have been the first general-purpose processor to support hardware transactional memory (HTM). The Sun Studio compiler is used by a number of research projects, including Hybrid Transactional Memory (HyTM)[8] and Phased Transactional Memory (PhTM),[9] to investigate support and possible HTM optimizations.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Solaris Studio
  2. ^ Oracle gooses Studio compilers for Solaris, Linux
  3. ^ Oracle Solaris Studio downloads
  4. ^ "Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2: Performance Analyzer". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2010-09-11. 
  5. ^ "Sun Studio 12: Distributed Make (dmake)". Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2010-09-11. 
  6. ^ "Definition of basic block of code states that basic block has only one entry and only one exit point, essentially implying the statement.". Retrieved 6Feb2012. 
  7. ^ "Cool Tools - GCC for Sun Systems 4.2.0 as a Cross Compiler". Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2008-07-31. 
  8. ^ "Hybrid Transactional Memory". Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2007-11-10. 
  9. ^ "PhTM: Phased Transactional Memory". Sun Microsystems. Retrieved 2007-11-10. 

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