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What's New in the Oracle® Developer Studio 12.5 Release

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Updated: July 2016
 
 

Key Features in this Release

Oracle Developer Studio 12.5 delivers highly optimized compilers, advanced analysis tools, and a multi-language aware IDE for easy development of fast, reliable, and secure applications for Oracle Solaris and Linux operating systems. Oracle Developer Studio tools are optimized to complement the complete hardware and software stack and enable development teams to write better code faster.

  • Raise the Bar on Security

    • Oracle SPARC M7 Silicon Secured Memory (SSM) integration in developer tools delivers real-time memory access checking and a new library enables apps to use SSM in custom memory allocators. See Code Analysis Tools for more information.

    • Built-in security checking during source code compilation helps identify security vulnerabilities earlier in the development and testing process. See C++ Compiler, C Compiler, and Changes to Compilers for more information.

    • Automatic stack overflow protection at application runtime minimizes potential security vulnerabilities

    • Secure coding hints in IDE to detect use of unsecure and deprecated functions and offer suggestions on more secure alternatives. See Oracle Developer Studio IDE for more information.

  • Increase Productivity

    • Easy compilation of open source applications with expanded GNU support and binary compatibility. See Oracle Developer Studio 12.5: GCC Compatibility Guide for more information.

    • Popular C++14 features and full support for C++11 and C11, including concurrency and atomics libraries

    • Improved testing and support of latest Boost libraries

    • Accurate and easy performance analysis of Java, C, C++ applications. See Performance Analysis Tools for more information.

    • Efficient code editing of large enterprise applications, delivering up to 7x faster parse time than open source alternatives. See Oracle Developer Studio IDE for more information.

  • Maximize Performance

    • Generate up to 4.5x faster code with performance optimizations for the latest Oracle systems (SPARC and x86), including SPARC S7

    • Updated Performance Analyzer with latest SPARC hardware counters. See Performance Analysis Tools for more information.

    • All tools provided as 64-bit binaries