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Preface
This Guide covers the following topics:
• Chapter 1, “What's New in Recent Releases,” lists new features added
in recent releases.
• Chapter 2, “What Happens When You Compile and Link a Program,”
provides details on compiling and linking programs.
• Chapter 3, “Linker Tasks,” lists many ways you can specify how you
want your program linked.
• Chapter 4, “Linker Tools,” list the tools available in the linker toolset.
• Chapter 5, “Creating and Using Libraries,” discusses all aspects of
both archive and shared libraries.
• Chapter 6, “Shared Library Management Routines,” explains how to
explicitly load libraries at run time using shared library management
routines.
• Chapter 7, “Position-Independent Code,” describes how to write
position-independent assembly code.
• Chapter 8, “Ways to Improve Performance,” discusses several ways to
optimize your program.
• Appendix A, “Using Mapfiles,” describes mapfiles.
• Glossary contains definitions of important terms in this manual.
Printing History
New editions of this manual will incorporate all material updated since
the previous edition. The manual printing date and part number indicate
its current edition. The printing date changes when a new edition is
printed. The manual part number changes when extensive technical
changes are incorporated.
• November 1997, Edition 1, part number B2355-90655. This manual
supersedes HP-UX Linker and Libraries User’s Guide part number
B2355-90655. The main reason for this new edition is to document
new functionality for the HP-UX 11.00 release: