Sparcitecture

Ben Rockwood: Exploring Sun Studio 10:

Alan Hargreaves recently blogged about Cscope-fast in OpenSolaris-Land. Cscope is a nifty tool, one that looks boring enough sittin in /opt/SUNWspro/bin untill you give it a spin and suddenly fall in love with it. I’ve always ment to really dig around with the tools that come with Sun Studio (aka: SOS) but never had the time, I just install it and use cc, thats it. Well, Alan get me interested, so I spent a little time today digging around.

I’m putting my devtools notes online. They aren’t fancy or anything, just what I jotted down as I played around.

Many of the tools supprised me, they are really handy! Simple things that I’ve known about but never actually bothered to use like indent and lint are pretty handy. Things I didn’t know where there like X Designer gave me a bit of a shock. But some nifty “hidden” treasures are there that I never bothered to notice like cscope, prof, cflow, dumpstabs, cxref, and ctrace. There are some kick ass tools in there if you only take the time to dig around, and now that I get to use Sun Studio for more than 60 days (thanks to OpenSolaris!) its time to learn.

Have a looksie at my notes and then take the time to dig around a little yourself, you’ll be glad you did.

[composed and posted with ecto]