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)