Oracle Developer Studio, formerly named Oracle Solaris Studio, Sun Studio, Sun WorkShop, Forte Developer, and SunPro Compilers, is

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's flagship software development product for the Solaris and

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s. It includes optimizing C, C++, and Fortran

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s, libraries, and performance analysis and debugging tools, for Solaris on SPARC and x86 platforms, and Linux on x86/x64 platforms, including multi-core systems. Oracle Developer Studio is downloadable and usable at no charge; however, there are many security and functionality patch updates which are only available with a support contract from Oracle. Version 12.4 adds partial support for the

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language standard. All C++11 features are supported except for concurrency and atomic operations, and user-defined literals. Version 12.6 supports the

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language standard.

Languages

* C * C++ * Fortran

Supported architectures

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* i86pc ( x86 and

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)

Components

The Oracle Developer software suite includes: * C, C++, and Fortran compilers and support libraries * dbx and frontends * lint * A

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-based IDE *

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* Thread analyzer * Sun performance library * Distributed make

Compiler optimizations

A common optimizing backend is used for code generation. A high-level intermediate representation called ''

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

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* Constant folding and constant propagation *

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analysis *

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s *

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* Profile-guided optimization *

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* Strength reduction *

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, with -xvector=simd

OpenMP

The

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shared memory parallelization API is native to all three compilers.

Code coverage

Tcov, a source

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analysis and statement-by-statement profiling tool, comes as a standard utility. Tcov generates exact counts of the number of times each statement in a program is executed and annotates

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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

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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. The tcov utility does not produce any time-based data.

GCCFSS

The GCC for SPARC Systems (GCCFSS) compiler uses

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's (GCC) front end with the Oracle Developer 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 compiler's back end. This greatly facilitates the porting of GCC-based applications to SPARC systems. GCCFSS 4.2 adds the ability to be used as a

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; SPARC binaries can be generated on an x86 (or x64) machine running Solaris.

Research platform

Before its cancellation, the Rock would have been the first general-purpose processor to support ''hardware

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'' (HTM). The Oracle Developer Studio compiler is used by a number of research projects, including ''Hybrid Transactional Memory'' (HyTM) and ''Phased Transactional Memory'' (PhTM), to investigate support and possible HTM optimizations.

History

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References

External links

Oracle Developer Studio home page
on Oracle Developer Network
Product documentation

Cool Tools - GCC for SPARC Systems

Oracle Studio Forums

Application Performance Tuning on Sun Platform
(archived Jan 29, 2008)

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