Sun Studio Library and Tools Manuals

This section contains Library and Tools manuals.
Note: The math libraries are thread-safe and the perflib is parallelized.

Debugger

Debugging a Program With dbx
Intended for programmers who want to debug an application using the dbx command-line debugging tool.

Build Software

Distributed Make (dmake)
Describes the Sun Studio 12 dmake command.

Math Libraries

Numerical Computation Guide
Describes the floating-point environment supported by software and hardware on SPARC® and x86 platforms running the Solaris[tm] operating environment.

OpenMP API

OpenMP API User's Guide
Summarizes the OpenMP directives and pragmas that are accepted by the compilers, implementation details, and guidelines for converting legacy Sun parallelization directives to OpenMP.

Performance Analyzer

Performance Analyzer
Describes the Sun Studio tools that are available for analyzing program performance. The book explains how to collect performance data and analyze the data using either the Performance Analyzer GUI or the command-line interface.

Sun Performance Library

Sun Performance Library User's Guide
Describes how to use the Sun-specific extensions and features included with the Sun Performance Library routines. The Sun Performance Library is a set of optimized, high-speed mathematical subroutines that are used to solve linear algebra problems and other numerically intensive problems.

Sun Performance Library Reference Manual
This reference manual is the Sun Performance Library section 3P man pages.

Standard C++ Library

Standard C++ Library Class Reference
An alphabetical listing of the C++ classes in the Standard C++ Library.

Standard C++ Library User's Guide
Describes how to use all of the Standard C++ Library. This manual is divided into two volumes: a General User's Guide, and a Locales and Iostreams User's Guide.

Thread Analyzer

Thread Analyzer User Guide
Details on compiling and running multi-threaded programs with the Thread Analyzer to detect deadlocks and data races.

Tools.h++ Class Library

Tools.h++ User's Guide
Gives information on how to write programs using the Tools.h++ class library.

Tools.h++ Class Library Reference
Describes all the classes and functions in Tools.h++. It does not provide a tutorial on how to program with the Tools.h++ class library.

X-Designer GUI Builder

X-Designer User's Guide
Describes how to use the X-Designer GUI builder.