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Shared Library Management Routines
Dynamic Loader Compatibility Warnings
Dynamic Loader CompatibilityWarnings
Starting with the HP-UX 10.20 release, the dynamic loader generates
compatibility warnings. These warnings include linker toolset features
that may change over time. To display run-time compatibility warnings,
set the _HP_DLDOPTS environment variable as follows:
export _HP_DLDOPTS=-warnings Turn on compatibility warnings
The following sections provide information about the dynamic loader
compatibility warnings.

Unsupported Shared Library Management

Routines

The following shared library management shl_load(3X) routines may
become unsupported in a future HP-UX release:
shl_definesym()
shl_get()
shl_get_r()
shl_gethandle()
shl_gethandle_r()
shl_getsymbols()
When these routines become unsupported, the SVR4 dlopen (3C) family
of routines will be the only dynamic loading routines supported.

Unsupported Shared Library Management

Flags

The following shared library management shl_load(3X) flags may
become unsupported in a future HP-UX-release:
BIND_FIRST
BIND_NOSTART
BIND_RESTRICTED