1. Introducing The Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 Release
8. Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds in This Release
The following features were added or changed in the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.2 IDE:
The Qt application development framework lets you create Qt files, such as GUI forms, resources, and translations.
The Run Monitor displays information about the application runtime such as CPU, memory, and thread usage. On Solaris platforms you can track Thread Microstates with Thread Details, and I/O usage.
The Call Graph now includes a graphical view as well as a tree view of all of the functions called from a selected function or all the functions that call that function.
Hyperlink navigation now lets you jump from a method that is overridden to the method that overrides it, and the reverse
You can add comments to your source code to generate documentation for your functions, classes, and methods. The IDE recognizes comments that use Doxygen syntax and automatically generates documentation.
The global Debugging Options in the Options window have been rearranged into Session Startup properties and Window properties. Four property settings eliminated: Front The Dbx Commands Tab When The Program Stops, Save and Restore Breakpoints, Allow Step To Start Process, and Balloon Expression Evaluation.
The Local Variables window is now the Variables window.
The New Watch button and the Expression Evaluation button have been removed from the debug toolbar.
The Make Caller Current and Make Callee Current buttons have been removed from the debug toolbar.
The Restart button has been added to the toolbar.
In the New Breakpoint dialog box: the LWP, language mode, and temporary checkboxes have been removed. The Condition, Count, WhileIn, and Thread fields have been reordered. The More/Less button has been removed.
The Sessions window opens automatically if you have more than one debugging session
The Call Stack window shows up to 40 frames; user can click More to see more than 40.
The Variables window and Watch window can show static members.
The Variables window has a button for displaying variables only for the current source code line and the previous source code line.
The Variables window has a New Watch button
The Disassembler window has been renamed to Disassembly.