[5] The Oracle Developer software suite includes: A common optimizing backend is used for code generation.
Major optimizations include: The OpenMP shared memory parallelization API is native to all three compilers.
Tcov, a source code coverage analysis and statement-by-statement profiling tool, comes as a standard utility.
Tcov generates exact counts of the number of times each statement in a program is executed and annotates source code to add instrumentation.
GCCFSS 4.2 adds the ability to be used as a cross compiler; SPARC binaries can be generated on an x86 (or x64) machine running Solaris.