Cool Tools - BIT - Release Notes for version 1.3

Description

• Sun Ceres Binary Improvement Tool 1.3 SunOS_sparc gccfss_lang 2008/01/02
  (Shipped with GCCFSS 4.2.0)
1. It is no longer necessary to compile with ‑xbinopt=prepare if compilation is done with GCCFSS 4.2 on a machine with either:
   1. Solaris 10 Update 5,
   2. Solaris 10 with Patch 127111‑07 installed, or
   3. Solaris 11 build 70 or above.
2. There is a new option for designating the instrdata directory, ‑I instrdata. The ‑d output_directory option no longer affects the location of the instrdata directory.
3. The instrumented output of
      bit instrument target
   is now a file instead of a symbolic link into the cache.
4. If ‑M and ‑R are used together on the command line, the behavior has changed. See the man page for details.
5. The ‑L liblist option has been added to more subcommands.
6. bit instrument now creates the instrdata directory if it does not exist.
7. If you have installed the SUNW0scgfss package in a nonstandard location, in addition to modifying the symbolic links in the gcc/bin directory as described in the GCCFSS 4.2.0 install instructions, you should similarly modify the man page links for ats, bit and discover in gcc/man/man1.
8. The following bugs have been fixed:
   1. Failure with message "Cache seems stale, should not be" when NFS server and client had mismatched times.
   2. Failure when -i static was used in combination with -M.
   3. Failure with message: "Not a binary file" when processing versioned libraries.
   4. Reinstrumenting with some minor options changed might not actually reinstrument.