[pca] question to folks running Oracle Solaris Studio 12 or 12.3

[Glen Gunselman]

We have Oracle Solaris Studio.  I have not patched it in awhile.

We did have support some years ago - but when I inquired about it I was told that the patches are free, the support is if you need help "using" it, so we dropped support.

It's my understanding that gcc uses (or can use) the Solaris Studio code generator (my words) - I don't know if this is for both SPARC and X86, or just SPARC.

I have not used gcc or Solaris Studio - so have no experience with either.


Glen Gunselman
Systems Software Specialist
Information Technology
Emporia State University
1200 Commerical St
Emporia Kansas 66801




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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 1:15 PM
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Subject: [pca] question to folks running Oracle Solaris Studio 12 or 12.3

Merely a polite question to anyone out there that still has Solaris
systems doing compile work AND you are still using Oracle Solaris Studio
12 or 12.3 releases.

Has anyone bothered to spend the money for the separate support on
the compiler tools and was it worth the expense as near as you can
tell?