Developing 64-bit Applications for the Oracle Solaris OS

The Oracle Solaris OS provides a 64-bit computing environment along with backward compatibility for 32-bit applications. The Solaris 64-bit Developer’s Guide is written primarily for the application developer. The book provides guidance for choosing whether to use the 32-bit Oracle Solaris application development environment or the 64-bit environment. The manual explains the similarities and differences between the two environments, and explains how to write code that is portable between the two environments. This book also describes some of the tools provided by the operating system for developing 64-bit applications.