HP-UX 11i December 2004 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 293.)
• HP-UX Shared Memory Extensions Available on Software Pack (see page 310)
• HP-UX Software Transition Kit (STK) (see page 311)
• Libraries (see page 313)
— aC++ Runtime (libCsup*, libstd*, libstream*, librwtool*) (see page 313)
— Changes to libc (see page 314)
— Overall libc Performance Tuning (see page 315)
— Performance Improvements to libc’s ftw() and nftw() (see page 317)
— Performance Improvements to libc’s malloc() (see page 318)
— The libcres.a Library (see page 320)
— Changes to libm (see page 321)
• Miscellaneous (see page 322)
— The pstat_getfile() Interface Deprecated (see page 322)
— Transition Links Deprecated (see page 322)
— Perl Programming Language (see page 324)
— Linker and Object File Tools (ld, crt0.o, dld.sl, libdld.sl, chatr, and odump) (see
page 324)
— Changes to the linker/dld Interface (see page 325)
— Instrumented Code Using PBO or +O4 Optimization (see page 326)
— HP DCE/9000 (see page 326)
— Extensions to pstat() (see page 328)
— Changes to sendfile (see page 330)
— Machine Identifier Changes to confstr (see page 331)