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Wednesday August 15, 2007

SunStudio 12 patch released
The first set of patches is available for SunStudio 12 on SunSolve.
Among the things you are likely to find interesting in the patch are:

Support for upcoming quad-core Barcelona chip from AMD. Try -xtarget=barcelona to trigger these
Improved support for Core2Duo architecture. These include

Significant FP improvements specifically targetted to Woodcrest, Clovertown and Caneland based systems
-xtarget=woodcrest, -xtarget=native and -fast support for appropriate -xarch, -xchip and -xcache values

Several important bug fixes for issues filed during Early Access and Express program field testing that could not be addressed in the latter part of the SunStudio release cycle

Overall, its strongly recommended that you use the patch both for Solaris/x86 and Linux if you're working with Intel's Woodcrest, Clovertown or Caneland systems.
Posted by tatkar ( Aug 15 2007, 09:00:44 AM PDT ) Permalink Comments [0]

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