Version A.01.04 Features

Features introduced in the prior release, HP aC++ version A.01.04 are listed below. They apply to HP-UX 10.10 and 10.20 operating systems.

The HP aC++ Online Programmer's Guide contains full documentation. (See Chapter 3 of these release notes for access instructions.)

+ESsfc — option to replace millicode calls with inline code when performing simple function pointer comparisons.
+inline_level — option to control how C++ inlining hints influence HP aC++.
+u — option to allow pointers to access non-natively aligned data. This option alters the way that the compiler accesses dereferenced data. Use of this option may reduce the efficiency of generated code.
+W — option to selectively suppress warning messages.
Support for new style casts as defined in the proposed C++ standard. The keywords const_cast, reinterpret_cast, and static_cast are supported.
Partial support for the namespace and using keywords. User namespaces are supported. Standard C++ Library components not in namespace std:: are not supported. Koenig lookup is not supported.
Support for class template partial specializations.
Extensive online documentation is provided, including the first edition of the technical document, Using Templates in HP aC++. Refer to Chapter 3 of these release notes for details.
HP aC++ now supports level 4 optimization. The +04 compile-line option is supported.
HP aC++ now supports profile-based optimization. The compile-line options +dfname, +I, +P and +pgmname are supported.

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