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What's New in Recent Releases
1 What's New in Recent Releases
This section contains information about recent releases of the HP-UX
linker toolset:
For This Release
The HP-UX 11.00 linker toolset contains new features:
If you use the 32-bit mode linker toolset, see the following items:
• “PA-RISC Changes in Hardware Compatibility” updated in this
chapter.
• “Exporting Symbols with +ee” on page 81.
• “Changes in Future Releases” updated in this chapter.
If you use the 64-bit mode linker toolset, see the following items:
• “PA-RISC Changes in Hardware Compatibility” updated in this
chapter.
• “64-bit Mode Linker Toolset Compatibility with De Facto Industry
Standards” described in this chapter.
• “64-bit Mode ELF Object File Format” described in this chapter.
• “Dynamic Path Searching for Shared Libraries” on page 177
describes differences in the run time searching of shared libraries.
• “Shared Library Symbol Binding Semantics” on page 178 describes
differences in shared library binding semantics.
• New 64-bit mode linker options, symbols, and features, described
in“New Features for 64-bit Mode Linking” in this chapter.
• Unsupported 32-bit mode features, behavior, and linker options,
described in “64-bit Mode Link-time Differences” and“64-bit Mode
Run Time Differences” in this chapter.
• “64-bit Mode Initializers” on page 210 describes the init/fini support
for 64-bit mode shared libraries.