Summary of changes

This section describes the technical changes made in this edition of the book and in previous editions. This edition may also include minor corrections and editorial changes that are not identified.


Summary of Changes
for SG24-5674-01
for Developing and Porting C and C++ Applications on AIX
as created or updated on July 11, 2003.

June 2003, Second Edition

This revision reflects the addition, deletion, or modification of new and changed information described below.

New information

The following chapters are new:

  • Chapter 2, “Compiling and linking” on page 37

  • Chapter 3, “Understanding user process models” on page 105

  • Chapter 4, “Managing the memory heap” on page 165

  • Chapter 5, “Creating DLPAR-aware applications” on page 207

  • Chapter 6, “Programming hints and tips” on page 219

  • Chapter 7, “Debugging your applications” on page 249

  • Chapter 9, “Program parallelization using OpenMP” on page 335

  • Chapter 12, “Packaging your applications” on page 405

Changed information

The following chapters were rewritten in order to cover new features and enhancements provided by the latest products:

  • Chapter 1, “C and C++ compilers” on page 1

  • Chapter 8, “Introduction to POSIX threads” on page 275

Unchanged information

The following chapters and appendixes are unchanged but reviewed again:

  • Chapter 10, “Dealing with C++ templates” on page 377

  • Chapter 11, “Creating shared objects from C++ source codes” on page 393

  • Appendix A, “Previous versions of C and C++ compiler products” on page 429

  • Appendix E, “Supported IBM SMP directives” on page 483

September 2000, First Edition

The first version of this book, C and C++ Application Development on AIX, SG24-5674 was written by the following authors:

Richard Cutler, Francois Armingaud, Eduardo Conejo, Kumaravel Nagarajan

The following list shows contributors for the first version of this book, C and C++ Application Development on AIX, SG24-5674:

IBM Toronto

Derek Truong, Mark Changfoot, Paul Pacholski, Rene Matteau

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