Sun Studio 12 Patches

Operating system patches and product patches are provided for Sun Studio 12 software. These patches are required for the proper operation of the compilers and tools in this release. The Sun Studio 12 Installation Reference Guide lists both the Solaris Operating System (OS) patches included with this release.

The Sun Studio 12 patches contain performance improvements to better support for Intel's Woodcrest and Clovertown, and AMD's Barcelona chips; particularly for SPECfp type applications.

Java 2, Standard Edition (J2SE) technology required patches are provided in the J2SE installer for Sun Studio 12 software. These patches are required for the proper operation of the J2SE technology with the Solaris Operating System (OS). The Sun Studio 12 Installation Guide lists the Solaris OS patches that are included with this release.

Both the Operating system and J2SE patches are installed automatically unless you change the default selection on the Select Components page during the installation processes. For detailed information, please refer to Appendix B and Appendix C in the Sun Studio 12 Installation Guide. And remember, you can always get the latest revision of the patch from SunSolve.

Patches on SunSolve recommended for Sun Studio 12:

Solaris OS on SPARC	Patch	Description
Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools	124861	Compiler Common patch for Sun C C++ F77 F95
	124863	C++ 5.9 Compiler
	124867	C 5.9 Compiler
	124870	Sun Performance Library
	124872	dbx
	124875	Debugger GUI 3.0
	126495	Debuginfo Handling
	126503	Dmake
	126995	Performance Analyzer
	127000	Fortran 95 8.3 Compiler
	127001	Fortran 95 8.3 Dynamic Libraries
	127143	Fortran 95 8.3 Support Library
	127147	Update notification patch
	127152	Sun Studio IDE
	127156	Install utilities patch
Solaris 10	120753	libmtsk
	118676	SunOS 5.10 SCCS and make utilities
	119963	SunOS 5.10: Shared library patch for C++
	119254	SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
Solaris 9	111711	SunOS 5.9 32-bit shared library patch for C++
	111712	Sun OS 5.9 64-bit shared library patch for C++
	112963	Linker Patch (32-bit)
	111703	Sun OS 5.9 SCCS and make utilities
	117560	SunOS 5.9 OpenMP support libmtsk
	111722	SunOS 5.9 Math Library libm patch
	112233	SunOS 5.9: Kernel Patch
	112785	X11 Xsun

Solaris OS on x86/x64	Patch	Description
Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools	124864	C++ 5.9 Compiler
	124868	C 5.9 Compiler
	124869	Sun Performance Library
	124873	dbx
	124876	Debugger GUI 3.0
	126496	Debuginfo Handling
	126498	Compiler Common patch for Sun C C++ F77 F95
	126504	Dmake
	126996	Performance Analyzer
	127002	Fortran 95 8.3 Compiler
	127003	Fortran 95 8.3 Dynamic Libraries
	127144	Fortran 95 8.3 Support Library
	127148	Update notification patch
	127153	Sun Studio IDE
	127157	Install utilities patch
Solaris 10	119964	SunOS 5.10_x86 Shared library patch for C++_x86
	120754	SunOS 5.10_x86 libmtsk
	118677	SunOS 5.10 SCCS and make utilities
	119961	SunOS 5.10_x86: Assembler
	119255	SunOS 5.10_x86: Install and Patch Utilities Patch
Solaris 9	111713	SunOS 5.9_x86: 32-bit shared library patch for C++
	113986	Linker Patch (32-bit)
	117559	SunOS 5.9_x86 OpenMP support libmtsk
	121617	SunOS 5.9_x86 SCCS and make utilities
	115114	SunOS 5.9_x86: Assembler
	111728	SunOS 5.9_x86 Math Library libm patch
	112786	X11 Xsun
	117172	SunOS 5.9_x86: Kernel Patch

Linux OS on x86/x64	Patch	Description
Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools	124865	C++ 5.9 Compiler
	124871	C 5.9 Compiler
	124866	Sun Performance Library
	124874	dbx
	124877	Debugger GUI 3.0
	126497	Debuginfo Handling
	126997	Compiler Common patch for Sun C C++ F77 F95
	126500	Dmake
	126994	Performance Analyzer
	127145	Fortran 95 8.3 Compiler
	127146	Fortran 95 8.3 Dynamic Libraries
	127149	RHEL4 and SLES9 Update notification patch
	127154	Sun Studio IDE
	127158	RHEL4 and SLES9 Install utilities patch