HP-UX 11i December 2002 Release Notes

Chapter 15
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15 Programming
What’s in This Chapter?
This chapter covers a variety of changes that are of particular interest to programmers.
(For other relevant information, also see Chapter 14, “Compatibility,” on page 263.)
• HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK) (see page 280)
• Libraries (see page 281)
— aC++ Runtime (libCsup*, libstd*, libstream*, librwtool*) (see page 281)
— Changes to libc (see page 282)
— Overall libc Performance Tuning (see page 283)
— Performance Improvements to libc’s ftw() and nftw() (see page 285)
— Performance Improvements to libc’s malloc() (see page 286)
— The libcres.a Library (see page 288)
— Changes to libm (see page 289)
• Miscellaneous (see page 290)
— Linker and Object File Tools (ld, crt0.o, dld.sl, libdld.sl, chatr, and odump) (see
page 290)
— Changes to the linker/dld Interface (see page 291)
— Instrumented Code Using PBO or +O4 Optimization (see page 292)
— HP DCE/9000 (see page 292)
— Extensions to pstat() (see page 294)
— Changes to sendfile (see page 296)
— Machine Identifier Changes to confstr (see page 297)