Updated 2002/03/28

Forte[tm] Developer 7: LockLint Readme

Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. About Forte Developer 7 lock_lint
  3. New and Changed Features
  4. Software Corrections
  5. Problems and Workarounds
  6. Limitations and Incompatibilities
  7. Documentation Errors

 

A. Introduction

This document contains information about the Forte[tm] Developer 7 tool, lock_lint. The lock_lint software has not changed since the Sun Workshop[tm] 5.0 release.

Information in the release notes updates and extends information in all readme files. To access the release notes and the complete Forte Developer documentation set, go to the documentation index at file:/opt/SUNWspro/docs/index.html.

To view the text version of this readme, type the following at a command prompt:

   more /opt/SUNWspro/READMEs/lock_lint

To view the HTML version of this readme, go to: 

   file:/opt/SUNWspro/docs/index.html

Note - If your Forte Developer 7 software is not installed in the /opt directory, ask your system administrator for the equivalent path on your system.

 

B. About LockLint

LockLint performs a static analysis of the use of mutex and multiple readers/single writer locks, and looks for inconsistent use of these locking techniques. In looking for consistent use of locks, LockLint detects the most common cause of data races and deadlocks: the failure to hold the appropriate lock while accessing a shared variable.

For information about how to use LockLint, see Chapter 5 and Appendix A of Analyzing Program Performance With Sun WorkShop for Sun WorkShop 5.0, available on http://docs.sun.com. (Search on LockLint.)

This release of LockLint is available on the Solaris[tm] operating environment (SPARC[tm] Platform Edition) versions 7, 8, and 9.

 

C. New and Changed Features

The lock_lint software has not changed since the Sun Workshop 5.0 release.

 

D. Software Corrections

There are no corrections to lock_lint in this release.

 

E. Problems and Workarounds

There is no new information at this time.

 

F. Limitations and Incompatibilities 

There is no new information at this time. 

 

G. Documentation Errors 

There is no new information at this time.

 

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