HP-UX 11i Version 2 Release Notes (October 2003)

Chapter 9
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9 Libraries and Programming
What’s in This Chapter?
This chapter covers a wide variety of changes of particular interest to programmers,
such as changes to compilers, editors, and libraries, including:
400K File Descriptors (see page 202)
Adaptive Address Space (AAS) (see page 205)
Aries Binary Translator (see page 206)
Debugging (see page 207)
Absolute Debugger (adb) (see page 207)
HP Kernel Debugger (KWDB) (see page 208)
HP Wildebeest Debugger (WDB) (see page 209)
Dynamic Loader (dld.so) (see page 211)
File Descriptor Allocation (see page 213)
GTK+ Libraries (see page 214)
HP aC++ Compiler (see page 214)
HP C Compiler (see page 216)
HP Fortran (see page 218)
HP Math Library (libm) (see page 219)
HP Message Passing Interface (MPI) (see page 220)
HP MLIB (see page 222)
HP-UX C Library (libc) (see page 223)
Itanium Unwind Library (libunwind.so) (see page 225)
Java 2 Platform (see page 225)
HP 3D Technology for the Java 2 Platform (see page 226)
Runtime Environment (RTE) for the Java 2 Platform (see page 227)
Runtime Plug-in (JPI) for Netscape/Mozilla for the Java 2 Platform (see page
228)
Link Editor (ld) (see page 229)
Micro Focus OO COBOL 4.2 Run-Time Libraries (Deprecation) (see page 230)
Object File Tools (elfdump) (see page 230)
Perl (see page 231)
Source Code Transition from HP-UX 11i v1.6 to HP-UX 11i v2 (see page 232)
Thread Context (see page 232)