Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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What do you call 64-bits?

You can use Sun Studio to build 32-bit programs and 64-bit programs. So what is that choice called, anyway? Is it “data model”, “memory model”, “data addressing model” ? Is it an ABI? And how is it related to those compilation styles on x86 where you can have large/small/medium/tiny memory models? Is that a “memory [...]

Compiler options by category and platform

One of our doc writers, Richard, blogged about a project I helped out with. It’s a nice index of compiler options sorted and arranged by many different aspects. The source is stored in an XML document, and it’s processed using style sheets into a tree of HTML files. We tried forever to dynamically load the [...]