ForteTM Developer 7 Documentation Index

This page contains links to the Forte[tm] Developer 7 documentation that is installed with the product on your local system or network.

Except where noted, the documentation is available in HTML format. To view the documentation available in PDF, you need Adobe® Acrobat Reader software. To download the Adobe Acrobat Reader software, read the Adobe Acrobat Reader download instructions.

Manuals and Readme Files

A readme lists new features, known problems, limitations, and incompatibilities for a particular software component. Information in the readmes is more current and supersedes information in the manuals.

User's guides describe how to use the features of the product. Reference manuals give specific details about the product, such as command syntax and options. Some manuals include both types of information.

Manuals that are available in PDF format are also available in HTML, making it possible for the manuals to be read by assistive technologies for users with disabilities. To find the HTML version of a PDF manual, go to http://docs.sun.com and search for the Forte Developer 7 Collection.


Contents



Installation

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C Compiler

C++ Compiler

Fortran Compilers

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Debugging and dbx Command-Line Debugger

dmake (Distributed Make) Command-Line Tool

dmake (distributed make) is a command-line tool that parses your makefiles, determines which targets can be built concurrently, and distributes the build of those targets over a number of hosts that you set. See the dmake Readme for more information.


OpenMP API

The OpenMP Application Program Interface (API) supports multiplatform shared-memory parallel programming in C, C++, and Fortran on all architectures. OpenMP is a portable, scalable model that gives you an explicit and flexible interface for developing parallel applications on shared-memory mulitprocessor platforms.

See the OpenMP API User's Guide (PDF) for OpenMP directives and pragmas accepted by the compilers, implementation details, and guidelines for converting legacy Sun parallelization directives to OpenMP.

In this Forte Developer 7 release, the C compiler, C++ compiler, and Fortran 95 compiler feature full native support for the OpenMP C/C++ API Version 1.0 and Fortran 95 API Version 2.0 specifications. The following are links to the specifications on the http://www.openmp.org web site:


Code Performance Analysis and Multithreaded Development Tools

What's New

What's New (PDF) describes the new features of the Forte Developer 7 compilers and command-line tools.

For the HTML version of this manual, go to http://docs.sun.com.



FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

The C++ FAQ is a collection of questions and answers about the C++ compiler, including information about versions, patches, compatibilities, and compile-time and run-time performance.

For additional FAQs, see the FAQ index on the product web page.



Release Notes

The release notes contain the most up-to-date information about the following:

  • System requirements
  • Disk space requirements
  • Patch requirements
  • Installation issues
  • Documentation for the current release and how to access it
  • Problems and workarounds that are not covered in the readmes
For a PDF version of the release notes, see the link to the release notes from the documentation index on the product web page.

For a text-only version of the release notes, see /cdrom/devpro_v10n1_sparc/release_notes.txt located at the top level of the product CD.



Man Pages

Man pages are online reference manual pages that describe user commands, system administration commands, libraries that are supplied with the compilers, and other reference information. Man pages contain syntax, usage, pointers to related commands or interfaces, and additional reference material.

See the man page index for links to the man pages in HTML format.
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