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Friday June 30, 2006

Sun Studio Linux Compiler TP4: Whats New?
Sun Studio for Linux Technology Preview 4 is open for business!
 You can download it and get the details here.

Here is the list of new features implemented as described in this active forum:

• OpenMP support for cc and f95
• -xipo[=1,2], whole-program interprocedural optimization

• Thread local storage support
• -fast command line macro now includes:
• -dalign -fns -nofstore -fsimple=2 -fsingle -xalias_level=basic -xtarget=native -xO5 -xregs=frameptr
• suncc, sunCC, sunf90, sunf77, sunf95, sunc89, sunc99, sunas compiler driver nicknames
• -m32 and -m64 flags specifying respectively, the ILP32 and LP64 address models
• The -xMD, -xMF, -xMMD flags for controlling makefile dependency information
• #include_next directive
• aligned and visibility __attribute__ support in C
• value returning blocks in C
• __typeof__ support in C
• Zero length arrays in C
• C++ compiler: stlport4 and rw7 libraries

• -fast command line macro now includes:
• -xO5 -xtarget=native -xprefetch=auto -dalign -fsimple=2 -fns=yes -ftrap=common -nofstore
• interval arithmetic on Solaris Intel
• CAUTION messages issued when using the same symbols that are defined in different modules.
• Faster compilation time for source files with many constant values.
• Intrinsic functions called with UNSIGNED arguments improved.

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