A refresh to the excellent Sun Studio suite has been released.
The last full release (Sun Studio 12 Update 1) included a new DBX frontend called dbxtool, which was excellent.
This refresh includes an interesting new addition. It a new memory debugger called Discover.
They have also included brand new code coverage tools.
Also included is better optimisation support for new CPUs such as the Xeon 7500 range and the newer SPARC processors.
Performance analyser has been improved and the IDE is upgraded to NetBean 6.8 level.
Sun Studio download link at developers.sun.com
Video link
Previous Sun Studio 12 Update 1 included:
* DLight: runtime profiling using DLight, which unifies application and system profiling using DTrace technology on Solaris platforms.
* OpenMP 3.0 support, in the compiler and performance tools.
* Performance Analyzer: MPI Application Profiling
* Thread Analyzer: Detecting Multithreaded Programming Errors
Screencasts available here
