HP-UX Linker and Libraries Release Notes (September, 2008)

HP-UX Linker and Libraries Release Notes (September 2008)
This document discusses the most recent product information on HP-UX Linker and Libraries
Version B.11.65 for HP 9000 systems and Version B.12.50 for Integrity systems that are running
HP-UX 11i v1, HP-UX 11i v2, and HP-UX 11i v3.
This document discusses the following topics:
• “New Features in This Release” (page 5)
• “Documentation Overview” (page 6)
— “Before You Begin” (page 6)
— “Accessing HP-UX Linker Online Help” (page 7)
— “Related Information” (page 7)
Announcement
HP-UX linker and dynamic loader provide linking and loading functionalities supported in Unix
(SVR4 (System V Release 4) standards). The linker toolset uses the ELF (Executable and Linking
File format) object file format on Integrity systems and PA64 systems, and the SOM (System
Object Module) file format on PA32 systems.
New Features in This Release
This section describes new features introduced in this release of HP-UX Linker and Libraries.
The new features are changes made after the September 2007 patches. The changed patch
information is as mentioned below:
Table 1 Patch labels with corresponding Operating Systems
Operating SystemPatch label
HP-UX 11i v1PHSS_38154
HP-UX 11i v2PHSS_38134
HP-UX 11i v3PHSS_38135
This section addresses the following topics:
• “New Feature to Perform Sanity Checks on ELF Files” (page 5)
• “New Linker Features for Integrity Systems and PA64 Systems” (page 5)
• “New feature to Print Stack Trace Information of a Particular Thread” (page 6)
• “Making Prime as Default -nbucket Linker Option” (page 6)
• “Improved Mechanism for Decreasing Program Startup Time” (page 6)
• “New Feature to Trace Inter-Module Procedure Calls” (page 6)
New Linker Features for Integrity Systems and PA64 Systems
Following are the new features in this release of HP-UX Linker and Libraries for Integrity Systems,
PA64 Systems, or both:
New Feature to Perform Sanity Checks on ELF Files
With this release, strict sanity checks for ELF files is enabled through the _HP_STRICT_ELF
environment variable. When enabled, this environment variable will cause the linker or the
runtime tools to detect corrupt ELF files. This check is disabled by default, and can be enabled
by defining the environment variable as shown below:
# export _HP_STRICT_ELF=1
Announcement 5