Re: Sun compilers: acc vs. gcc?

harold@forsythe.stanford.edu (Harold Finkbeiner) writes:


      You might look into SPARCworks. With the new version it sounds like
      you can debug/edit code on the fly similiar to an interpreted version
      of C. I believe though that you require at least Solaris 2 for the new
      version which has this feature.


The 3.0.1 release runs on 4.x (Solaris 1) as well as Solaris 2. The
"fix and continue" feature you refer to works on both platforms (some
of the performance collection functionality depends on /proc, so is
disabled in the Solaris 1 release).


FWIW: It isn't an interpreter, what happens (in a nutshell) is that
            whilst debugging, one can change the source, trigger
            a recompile of that file, an automatic dlclose of the
            old symbol and a dlopen of the new version of the revised
            function. When "fixing" a relatively small function of a large
            application the effect can be very fast turnaround compared
            with the traditional edit-compile-link-debug cycle.


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