Sun Studio Compilers and Tools

Discover how to use Sun Studio to build Intel's Threading Building Blocks (TBB), an open-source runtime library that reduces the effort required to express parallelism in C++ programs.

Take your idea from experiment to global deployment on a single platform in a
familiar environment. Complete with free, built-in features, OpenSolaris can
be deployed on nearly 1000 systems.

Keep up to date by visiting the What's New page on the Sun Studio SDN Portal

July 21, 2006
This article discusses general and data race condition that arise in parallel programming.
While data race condition problems are common and easy to fix, harder to avoid general race problems can also
occur.
A race condition could be the symptom of deeper design problems.
A simple parallel partitioning example illustrates these various race condition issues and how to avoid them.

June 7, 2006
The command-line utility lock_lint analyzes the use of mutex and multiple readers/single writer locks, and reports on inconsistent use of these locking techniques that may lead to data races and deadlocks in multi-threaded applications.

Find out how you can display a message in the title bar
of the Table component in Winston Prakash's latest weblog entry and, if you missed it before, check out his instructions on
adding multiple buttons

June 12, 2006
The Sun Studio Fortran compiler, f95, already handles a large number of features that are part of the current Fortran international standard, Fortran 2003.

How to use DTrace in conjunction with Sun Studio tools to understand, analyze,
and debug software applications.

Learn two ways of viewing the correspondence between the behaviour of the
training and reference workloads using profile feedback.

August 25, 2006
This article describes how to use the Sun Studio Performance Tools to profile the
performance of WebLogic servers.