Sun Studio 12 Update 1

Sun Studio software includes compilers, libraries, and tools for application development in C, C++, and Fortran, on Solaris, OpenSolaris, and Linux systems, on SPARC and x86 platforms.

Complete documentation for the current Sun Studio 12 Update 1 (SS12U1) release includes reference manuals, ReadMes for each major software component, man pages, and tutorials is linked here.

Documentation is also available for previous releases, Sun Studio 12, and Sun Studio 11.

Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Documentation

• Data Sheet: Sun Studio 12 Update 1 (PDF)

• Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Release Notes
  Release Notes contain last-minute installation details and other information about the software, including system requirements, patches, and features.

• Component Readmes
  Readme files for each of the major Sun Studio compilers and tools give the detail what's new in this release, and give latest information on known problems and workarounds

• Man Pages
  HTML versions of the SS12U1 man pages in the distributed software.

• Manuals
  Reference manuals on docs.sun.com can be viewed in HTML, or downloaded in PDF. The following updated manuals are currently available in the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Collection on docs.sun.com:

  • Sun Studio 12 Update 1 Installation Guide

  • C User's Guide

  • C++ User's Guide

  • Fortran User's Guide

  • OpenMP API User's Guide

  • Sun Performance Library User's Guide

  • Debugging a Program With dbx

  • Performance Analyzer Reference Manual

  The remaining manuals will be made available as soon as they are updated. Until then, please refer to the manuals for the previous Sun Studio 12 release.

• Tutorials
  The following tutorials present SS12U1 features:

  • The Sun Studio 12 Update 1 IDE Quick Start Tutorial takes you through the basic steps of using the IDE to develop an application.

  • The Sun Studio Performance Analyzer MPI Tutorial shows how to use Analyzer to detect performance issues in distributed-memory MPI parallel programs.

  • The DLight Tutorial. DLight offers a variety of instrumentation that takes advantage of the Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) debugging and performance analysis functionality in the Solaris Operating System.