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This page presents Sun Studio and Sun Studio Express technical articles organized by general topics.

General | C/C++ | Fortran | Debugging | Performance Analysis and Optimization
X86/x64 | Parallel/Multithreaded Programming

Sun Studio 12 Quick Start Guide

Using Sun Performance Library to Accelerate Applications (January 2010)

Translating gcc/g++/gfortran Options to Sun Studio Compiler Options (January 2009)

Why Use Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools? (August 2008)

Beyond LAMP: SAMP... LGPJ... LAMJ... (July 2008)

Using and Redistributing Sun Studio Libraries in an Application (May 2008)

Getting Started with Sun Studio Software (January 2008)

Roadmap to Sun Developer Documentation (February 2005; updated November 2006)

Building GLib With Sun Studio Tools - A Case Study (May 2006)

Converting 32-bit Applications Into 64-bit Applications: Things to Consider (January 2005)

Floating-Point Computing: A Comedy of Errors? (January 2004)

Using and Redistributing Sun Studio Libraries in an Application (May 2009)

New Language Extensions in the Sun Studio 12 C Compiler (June 2007)

Comparing C++ Standard Libraries libCstd and libstlport (May 2006)

Reducing Symbol Scope with Sun Studio C/C++ (May 2005; revised March 2006)

How to Use the restrict Qualifier in C (July 2003; revised March 2006)

Detecting and Avoiding OpenMP Race Conditions in C++

Using the C/C++ Garbage Collection Library, libgc

Lock_Lint - Static Data Race and Deadlock Detection Tool for C

Mixing C and C++ Code in the Same Program

Stability of the C++ ABI: Evolution of a Programing Language

Automatic DTrace Probe Insertion in Fortran (February 2009)

Using F95 Interfaces to Customize Access to the Sun Performance Library (June 2007)

Using Run-Time Checking Options With The Sun Studio Fortran Compiler (December 2006)

Fortran 2003 Features in the Sun Fortran Compiler

Optimized Code Debugging With Sun Studio dbx (November 2008)

Debugging Multithreaded Programs (May 2008)

Using DTrace to Demystify Watchpoints in the Sun Studio dbx Debugger (May 2008)

AMD64 Instruction-Level Debugging with Sun Studio dbx (May 2008)

Using DTrace with Sun Studio Tools to Understand, Analyze, Debug, and Enhance Complex Applications (May 2008)

Debugging a JVM Level Hang Using dbx (March 2008)

Locating Memory Access Errors With Sun Memory Error Discovery Tool (September 2007)

Why Can't dbx Find My Function? (April 2006)

dbx and System Libraries: Why Can't dbx Read My Process or Core File? (Revised March 2006)

Performance Analysis and Optimization

Sun Studio Performance Analyzer Quick Start Guide

HPC Profiling with the Sun Studio Performance Tools (October 2009)

Profiling MPI Applications (February 2009)

Accelerate Application Builds With Dmake (July 2008)

Selecting the Best Compiler Options (Updated September 2009)

Using Sun Studio 12 on UltraSPARC T1- and T2-based Systems (Updated October 2007)

Calculating Processor Utilisation From the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 Performance Counters (September 2007)

Prefetching Pragmas and Intrinsics (June 2007)

Performance Tuning With Sun Studio Compilers and Inline Assembly Code (June 2007)

Building Enterprise Applications with Sun Studio Profile Feedback (April 2006; updated June 2007)

Profiling WebSphere Application Servers with Sun Studio Performance Tools (January 2007)

Advanced Compiler Options for Performance (Revised January 2007)

Selecting Representative Training Workloads for Profile Feedback Through Coverage and Branch Analysis (September 2006)

Cool Tools: Using SHADE to Trace Program Execution (September 2006)

Profiling WebLogic Servers with Sun Studio Performance Tools (August 2006)

Sun Studio: Using VIS Instructions To Speed Up Key Routines (January 2006)

The Sun Studio Performance Tools (November 2005)

Use Profile Feedback To Improve Performance (September 2005)

Improving Code Layout Can Improve Application Performance (June 2005)

Using Inline Templates to Improve Application Performance

Using UltraSPARC-IIICu Performance Counters to Improve Application Performance

Tip: How Many Threads Does It Take?

Getting the Best AMD64 Performance With Sun Studio Compilers (Updated August 2008)

Sun Studio Support for the AMD64 Medium Memory Model (December 2005; revised June 2006)

Sun Studio 10 Compilers and the AMD64 ABI (Revised November 2005)

64-bit x86 Migration, Debugging, and Tuning, With the Sun Studio 10 Toolset (January 2005)

Compiler Differences Between Solaris OS, SPARC Platform Edition and x86 Platform Edition (July 2004)

Assembly Language Techniques for the Solaris OS, x86 Platform Edition (June 2004)

Parallel/Multithreaded Programming

Using Intel's Threaded Building Blocks (TBB) With Sun Studio Express (May 2008)

An OpenMP Runtime API for Profiling (February 2007)

Introducing OpenMP: A Portable, Parallel Programming API for Shared Memory Multiprocessors (January 2007)

The Challenge of Race Conditions in Parallel Programming (July 2006)

Maximizing Application Performance on Chip Multithreading (CMT) Architectures (June 2006)

Chip Multithreading and Multiprocessing (December 2005)

Developing Applications For Parallel Computing (December 2005)

OpenMP Support in Sun Studio Compilers and Tools (December 2005)

Improving Application Efficiency Through Chip Multi-Threading (March 2005; updated October 2005)