---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SMCC OFFERS NEW COMPILERS AND TOOLS THAT BOOST DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY SunFLASH Vol 42 #20 June 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Support Solaris 2.0, Tool Integration MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- June 16, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced pricing and availability for new versions of four SPARCompilers(TM) and the SPARCworks(TM) development tools, the first development environment for the new Solaris(R) 2.0 distributed computing environment. Significantly enhanced from previous versions, this suite of compilers and tools was developed by SunPro, a Sun Microsystems business unit, and gives programmers unparalleled productivity in designing UNIX(R) software on Sun(TM) SPARC(R) systems and other SPARC platforms. Also available is SPARCworks Professional, a package of a compiler and companion tools that saves money over individual product purchases. One factor making these new products very cost effective is floating licenses that let users buy fewer copies but still have access to the products. A very significant addition to these compilers and tools is application integration between products through SunSoft's ToolTalk(TM), which was designed for networked environments. This inter-application communication tool is built into the Solaris 2.0 environment -- based on System V Release 4, the UNIX standard -- and can speed the development cycle. Besides tightly integrating the various SPARCompilers and SPARCworks, ToolTalk will enable programmers to integrate third-party tools into the Sun environment as well. Already, ToolTalk is supported by CASE companies such as Cadre, CenterLine, Digital Tools, Frame, IDE, Interleaf, Softool, SunPro, and Visix. Another new feature of these development products for Sun is on-line help and documentation, which makes this developer's suite even easier to use. This CD-based hypertext documentation offers developers cost savings and a boost in productivity through the use of SunSoft's AnswerBook(TM) online help facility and the user-friendly OPEN LOOK(R) graphical interface. SMCC is licensing new SPARCompilers for the four most common Sun software development languages: C, C++, FORTRAN and Pascal. All have been optimized to produce very efficient code for SPARC systems. The new SPARCompiler C 2.0 supports both ANSI and K&R C, as well as 64-bit integer types. SPARCompiler C++ 3.0 is based on the UNIX System Laboratories de facto standard Cfront release 3.0 and gives developers access to templates, a powerful new feature. SPARCompiler Pascal 3.0 is based on the Berkeley Pascal compiler, and has Domain Pascal extensions for easy migration from Apollo. SPARCompiler FORTRAN 2.0 has faster I/O performance, support of 64-bit integer data types, and supports better viewing of array data within the SPARCworks Debugger. In addition to the four SPARCompilers, SMCC is offering a new version of SPARCworks, a set of six development tools for all SPARCompilers. Not only do these tools give developers broad capabilities in the language of their choice, but the same toolset works across all four languages. SPARCworks tools include: o SPARCworks Manager -- a tool enabling the launching, closing, customization and other management functions of all SPARCworks tools, as well as third-party and in-house-developed tools; o SourceBrowser -- a static program analyzer that lets programmers easily get information about their code, make intelligent queries into the code, and instantly get a graphical layout of how the code functions are working together; o Debugger -- a tool providing new support for debugging optimized code, as well as multi-language and very large program debugging. The SPARCworks Debugger is integrated with other tools to speed the edit/compile/debug cycle. It supports C++ without "name mangling;" o Performance Analyzer -- a graphical performance analyzer and optimizer that can automatically improve program performance through paging optimization; o FileMerge -- a tool greatly simplifying the task of comparing and merging source files; o MakeTool, an OPEN LOOK interface for the UNIX "make" utility with animated icons that show the status of programming builds. This tool greatly simplifies the task of building and compiling UNIX applications. Pricing and Availability SPARCompiler: C++ is $895; SPARCompiler: Pascal and FORTRAN are $1,095. In a special three-month promotion (July 1 to September 30), SPARCompiler C 2.0 is now $395 (regular $695). SPARCworks is priced at $1,395. SPARCworks Professional C++ (includes SPARCompiler: C++ and SPARCworks) is $1,795; SPARCworks Professional Pascal and FORTRAN are $1,995. As part of the same three-month promotion, SPARCworks Professional C is priced at $895 (regular $1595), which includes a free copy of the Solaris 1.0 development environment for easy migration to Solaris 2.0. All prices are U.S. list, and are available July 1, 1992. For PR inquiries, please contact Leiann Lee at x60597.leiann.lee@Corp.sun.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu, paris.cs.miami.edu, uunet.uu.net, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. (305) 776-7770.