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What's New in the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Release Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Information Library |
1. Introducing the Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 Release
7. The Oracle Solaris Studio IDE
9. Known Problems, Limitations, and Workarounds in This Release
The following lists the significant changes common to the C, C++, and Fortran compilers since the previous release. Details can be found in the compiler man pages and user guides.
Support for new SPARC T4 platform: —xtarget=T4, —xchip=T4, —xarch=sparc4
Support for new x86 Sandy Bridge AVX platform: —xtarget=sandybridge —xchip=sandybridge —xarch=avx
Support for new x86 Westmere AES platform: —xtarget=westmere —xchip=westmere —xarch=aes
New compiler option: —g3 adds expanded debugging symbol table information.
New compiler option: —Xlinker arg passes arg to linker, ld(1).
The OpenMP default number of threads, OMP_NUM_THREADS is now 2 (was 1).
Support for the 3.1 OpenMP shared memory parallelization specifications.
Use —library=sunperf to link to the Sun Performance Library. This obsoletes -xlic_lib=sunperf.
Support for user-supplied compiler option defaults.
—xarch support for legacy SPARC architectures V7, V8, and V8a has been removed.