64-bit Mode Linker Toolset Compatibility with De Facto Industry Standards

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.

64-bit Mode Linker Toolset Compatibility with De Facto Industry Standards

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