User's Guide

Strings.......................................................................................................................194
Arrays.......................................................................................................................194
Files in FORTRAN........................................................................................................194
11 Distributing Your C++ Products................................................................195
Applications that use HP aC++ Shared Libraries.......................................................................195
Linking Your HP aC++ Libraries with Other Languages..............................................................196
Installing your Application.....................................................................................................196
HP aC++ Files You May Distribute..........................................................................................196
Terms for Distribution of HP aC++ Files....................................................................................197
12 Migrating from HP C++ (cfront) to HP aC++.............................................198
General Guidelines for Migration...........................................................................................198
Getting Started with Migration...........................................................................................198
Writing Code for both Compilers.......................................................................................199
Explicit Loading and Unloading of Shared Libraries .............................................................199
Memory Allocation..........................................................................................................199
Command-Line Differences.....................................................................................................199
New Command-Line Options.............................................................................................199
Obsolete Command-Line Options.......................................................................................200
Changed Command-Line Options......................................................................................201
Migration Considerations when Debugging.............................................................................202
Migration Considerations when Using Exception Handling.........................................................202
Exception Handling is the Default.......................................................................................202
Memory Allocation Failure and operator new......................................................................203
Possible Differences when Exiting a Signal Handler..............................................................203
Differences in setjmp/longjmp Behavior..............................................................................204
Calling unexpected..........................................................................................................204
Unreachable catch Clauses...............................................................................................205
Throwing an Object having an Ambiguous Base Class..........................................................205
Migration Considerations when Using Libraries.........................................................................206
Standards Based Libraries.................................................................................................206
HP C++ (cfront) Compatibility Libraries...............................................................................207
IOStream Library.........................................................................................................207
Manpages.............................................................................................................207
Header Files..........................................................................................................207
Standard Components Library Not Provided...................................................................208
HP C++ (cfront) Complex Library Not Supported.............................................................208
Manpages.............................................................................................................208
Header File...........................................................................................................208
HP C++ (cfront) Task Library Not Supported...................................................................208
Manpages.............................................................................................................208
Migration Considerations Related to Preprocessing...................................................................208
Obsolete Preprocessor Options..........................................................................................209
Migration Considerations Related to Standardization.................................................................209
Changes in C++ Semantics...............................................................................................209
Implicit Typing of Character String Literals.......................................................................209
Overload Resolution Ambiguity of Subscripting Operator.................................................210
Execution Order of Static Constructors in Shared Libraries.................................................210
More Frequent Inlining of Inline Code............................................................................211
Changes in C++ Syntax....................................................................................................211
Explicit int Declaration.................................................................................................211
The for Statement, New Scoping Rules...........................................................................212
struct as Template Type Parameter is Permitted.................................................................212
Base Template Class Reference Syntax Change...............................................................213
Tokens after #endif......................................................................................................213
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