20 Chapter 1
What's New in Recent Releases
• “The dlopen Shared Library Management Routines” on page 240
describes the dl* family of shared library management routines for
64-bit mode.
• “BIND_BREADTH_FIRST Modifier” on page 222 describes the flag
added to the shl_load routine to modify search behavior.
• “Changes in Future Releases” updated in this chapter.
For Previous Releases
The following items were added in the HP-UX 10.30 release:
• “Linker Thread-Safe Features” on page 50.
• “Options to Improve TLB Hit Rates” on page 273.
• The +k linker option (see ld(1)) to remove an executable if the link
fails.
• The +k chatr option (see chatr(1)) to improve branch prediction on
PA-RISC 2.0.
The following items were added in the HP-UX 10.20 release:
• “Improving Shared Library Performance with -B symbolic” on page
60.
• “Improving Shared Library Start-Up Time with fastbind” on page
293.
• “Online Help for Linker and Libraries” described in this chapter.
• “PA-RISC Changes in Hardware Compatibility” described in this
chapter.
• “Linker Compatibility Warnings” on page 99.
• “Dynamic Loader Compatibility Warnings” on page 256.
• The +Ostaticprediction linker option described in the ld(1) man
page to use with profile-based optimization