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What's New in Recent Releases
64-bit Mode Linker Toolset Compatibility with De Facto Industry Standards
64-bit Mode Linker ToolsetCompatibility with De Facto IndustryStandards
The 64-bit mode linker and dynamic loader provide linking and loading
behaviors found widely across the Unix industry, considered, with the
SVR4 standards, to define the de facto industry standards. The following
64-bit linker behavior is compliant with de facto industry standard:
ELF object file format and libelf(3x) routines
Dynamic path searching
Library-level versioning
dl* family of dynamic loading routines
Breadth-first symbol searching
The HP-UX 11.00 release maintains certain behaviors to make
transition from 32-bit to 64-bit mode easier:
Creation of default run-time path environment variable (RPATH) if no
ld +b is seen on the link line, to improve transition from the 32-bit
mode linker.
ld +compat option for compatibility with 32-bit linking and loading
behavior.