HP-UX 11i v3 September 2011 Release Notes, Edition 2

aCC(1) options used to compile. Newly delivered as a recommended product on the BOE,
HA-OE, VSE-OE, and DC-OE.
• New: Copy-On-Write Functionality for Private Memory Objects: Provides copy-on-write
functionality for privately mapped files, private segments of child process after fork(2) and
private segments locked by mlock(2).
• New: getenv Performance Enhancement: Enhances the performance of the libc API
getenv(3C) for threaded applications. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.
• New: HP MLIB: In TCOE, V9.5 includes a defect fix. HP MLIB is newly delivered as an optional
product in VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.
• New: HP-MPI: Newly delivered as an optional product in BOE, VSE-OE, HA-OE, and DC-OE.
• New: HP Wildebeest Debugger: An HP-supported implementation of the Open Source GNU
debugger (GDB). Enables you to debug C, C++, and FORTRAN applications (32 bit and 64
bit versions) on Integrity and PA-RISC systems. Newly added as a recommended product to
the BOE, HA-OE, VSE-OE, DC-OE.
• New: HP-UX Atomic APIs (libatomic): Usage of these APIs avoid the use of mutex locks or
semaphores in certain scenarios. Delivered as an optional product in all OEs.
• New: Improved Support for Multi-threaded Applications: Extends the mpctl(2) API and adds
several new APIs to improve HP-UX support for multi-threaded applications. Provides the
capability to have finer-grain control.
• Java 2 Standard Edition Platform
Java JDK/JRE for HP-UX: JDK/JRE version 5.0 and SDK/RTE 1.4.2 have been updated
to incorporate defect and security bulletin fixes.
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◦ Java Out-of-Box: Updated to version 2.05.00 to incorporate defect fixes.
• New: Kernel Access Infrastructure: HP-UX Virtual Memory provides a new set of APIs to map
user virtual addresses into the kernel. Useful as a copy avoidance solution where user data
can be accessed and modified by kernel contexts, avoiding the copying in and out of data
when system calls are invoked.
• New: libc Enhancement: Contains a new API called memsetU16(3C), which can be used
for memory operations to set area in memory to contain 2-byte word. Delivered as an optional
product in all OEs.
• New: patch_active_text: Allows mprotect() write access to the text of a running process
such that the active text can be modified.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 11: “Internationalization”
• Korean iconv Codeset Converters: The iconv converters for converting data between Korean
EUC encoding and Unicode are updated to align the character mappings to match that of
Microsoft Windows and other UNIX platforms.
March 2008 Release Notes, Chapter 12: “Other Functionality”
• There are no changes in March 2008 for the products or features that are normally documented
in this chapter.
What is new in the HP-UX 11i v3 September 2007 release
The following summaries provide a general picture of how the September 2007 release of HP-UX
11i v3 differs from the initial (February 2007) release of HP-UX 11i v3. For further information,
see the indicated chapters in the HP-UX 11i Version 3 September 2007 Release Notes, available
in its most current version at
http://hp.com/go/hpux-core-docs
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