______________________________________________ HP C++ V7.3-032 Release Notes for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 (I64) for Integrity Servers February 27, 2008 This document contains information about new and changed features in HP C++ V7.3-032 for OpenVMS I64 Version 8.2-1. Revision/Update Information: This is a new manual Software Version: HP C++ V7.3-032 for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 for Integrity Servers Version 8.2-1 and higher. Hewlett-Packard Company Palo Alto, California __________________________________________________________ © Copyright 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. 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This document was prepared using DECdocument, Version 3.3-1n. ________________________________________________________________ Contents 1 Introduction................................. 1 2 Enhancements, Changes, and Problems Corrected in the V7.3-032 Compiler..................... 1 3 Release Notes for the V7.3 C++ Compiler...... 5 4 Known Problems in V7.3-032................... 22 5 Enhancements, Changes, and Problems Corrected in the V7.3-032 C++ Standard Library......... 23 6 Release Notes for the V7.2 C++ Compiler...... 24 6.1 New Name Mangling/Prefixing Requires Recompile from Source.................... 25 6.2 64-bit Runtime Libraries................. 27 6.3 64-bit Pointer Support................... 28 6.3.1 Pointer_Size Control Differences....... 30 6.3.2 Mixed Pointer-Size Allocators.......... 38 6.4 Other Enhancements, Changes, and Problems Corrected................................ 40 6.5 Known Problems and Restrictions.......... 44 7 Release Notes for the V7.2 C++ Standard Library...................................... 45 8 Release Notes for the V7.1 C++ Compiler...... 47 8.1 Problems Fixed in V7.1................... 48 8.2 New Features in V7.1..................... 49 8.2.1 cname Header Support................... 49 8.2.2 __HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES Predefined in Strict ANSI Mode....................... 49 8.2.3 /[NO]FIRST_INCLUDE Qualifier Added..... 50 8.2.4 #pragma include_directory Added........ 50 8.2.5 Messages............................... 51 8.2.6 New Front End.......................... 52 iii 8.3 I64 Differences.......................... 52 8.3.1 Quotas................................. 52 8.3.2 Dialect Changes........................ 52 8.3.3 ABI/Object Model changes............... 53 8.3.4 Command-Line Qualifiers................ 53 8.3.5 Floating Point......................... 58 8.3.6 Intrinsics and Builtins................ 61 8.3.7 memcpy C Run-Time Library Function..... 66 8.3.8 ELF.................................... 67 8.3.9 Templates.............................. 68 8.3.10 Exceptions and Condition Handlers...... 69 8.3.11 Overriding new and delete.............. 70 8.4 I64 Known Issues......................... 70 9 Release Notes for the V7.1 C++ Libraries..... 77 9.1 Library Reorganization................... 77 9.1.1 Standard Library and Language Run-Time Support Library........................ 77 9.1.2 Class Library.......................... 78 9.2 Language Run-Time Support Library........ 78 9.3 Class Library............................ 78 9.4 Standard Library......................... 79 9.4.1 Changes................................ 79 9.4.2 Library Headers........................ 79 9.4.3 Internal Library Headers and Macros.... 80 9.4.4 Known Issues........................... 80 9.4.5 Differences Between Alpha and I64 Systems................................ 80 9.4.6 Restrictions in Version 7.1............ 88 9.4.6.1 Using the C++ Standard Library in Microsoft Standard Mode............... 89 10 CXXLINK Changes.............................. 90 11 Installation................................. 91 11.1 Multiple Version Support................. 92 12 Reporting Problems........................... 95 iv 1 Introduction This document contains the release notes for HP C++ V7.3- 032 for OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 (I64) for Integrity Servers. The HP C++ product requires OpenVMS I64 Version 8.2-1 or higher. The release notes for previous HP C++ versions are also included: o See Sections 6 and 7 for the HP C++ V7.2 compiler and library release notes, respectively. o See Section 8 for the HP C++ V7.1 compiler release notes, which describe the new features, differences, and restrictions of the C++ V7.1 compiler for I64 systems over the C++ V6.5 compiler for Alpha systems. o See Section 9 for the HP C++ V7.1 release notes for the standard library, language run-time support library, and class library. 2 Enhancements, Changes, and Problems Corrected in the V7.3-032 Compiler This section describes enhancements, changes, and problems corrected since C++ Version 7.3-023 compiler for I64 systems. o The typeid.name() function has been changed to return the mangled type name instead of the demangled type name. Consider the following example. #include #include typedef int x; typedef struct str { int a; int b; } y; typedef int z(int a, double d); 1 int main() { printf("%s\n", typeid(x).name()); printf("%s\n", typeid(y).name()); printf("%s\n", typeid(z).name()); } This program will now emit: i 3str FiidE instead of: int str int(int, double) This change fixes a memory leak: the mangled name is actually stored statically in the image, while heap memory must be allocated to hold a demangled name returned to the user, and that heap memory cannot be safely freed automatically. The change also makes the function compatible with other IA64 C++ products as it will now comply with the IA64 ABI. However, this change does mean that the function will return a different value than the Alpha C++ product. The old behavior can be enabled by defining the macro __RETURN_DEMANGLED_NAME_OF_TYPE before including the header. But note that the old behavior will continue to have a memory leak on I64, which will not be fixed in future releases. o In some cases, particularly when a block with a local declaration of an object with a non-trivial destructor could be determined at compile-time never to execute, and there was control-flow from that block to a block that throws an exception, then the destructor for the local object would sometimes be invoked, even though the object was never constructed. The exact circumstances under which the destructor would be invoked erroneously were not consistent, and were sensitive to the layout of the stack frame. This problem has been corrected in the compiler. In addition, an incomplete initialization of a data structure used to implement exception handling within 2 the C++ language-support library could sometimes contribute to this problem. A patch kit fixing this problem in the C++ library is expected to be released in March 2008. This library patch kit should be installed to get the most reliable behavior for C++ exception handling. o Two usability improvements have been made to the __declspec(dllexport) declaration modifier. o Under the /STANDARD=STRICT qualifier, this feature now produces a warning message, CXX-W-DECEXT, which can be disabled. Previously it produced an error, which could not be disabled. o If this declaration modifier appears on the defining declaration for an object, but is omitted on prior (forward) declaration(s), the symbol will be exported in the options file. Previously, the modifier on the defining declaration was ignored if the modifier did not also appear on the forward declaration(s), a behavior that was inconsistent with the treatment of function declarations versus function definitions. o When the compiler encountered a fatal error (e.g. a #include file not found), and the /MMS_DEPENDENCIES qualifier was used to produce a dependency file, a new (version of the) dependency file was produced, even though it would not be correct/complete. The compiler now deletes the incorrect/incomplete dependency file upon encountering a fatal error. o When compiling /OPT=LEVEL=2 (or higher) overly large line numbers preceeded by a "#" could be seen in the line number column of a VMS traceback or in VMS debug. This problem has been corrected. But please note that optimized debugging is not supported in this release. 3 o The builtin functions __MEMSET, __MEMCPY, __MEMMOVE, and __STRCPY are sometimes compiled into calls to ordinary CRTL library functions (e.g. when compiling /NOOPT). The CRTL contains separate implementations of these routines for 32-bit versus 64-bit compilations, but the compiler was always generating calls to the 32- bit versions, even under /POINTER_SIZE=64. This problem has been corrected. o When a negative floating-point value is converted to an unsigned integer type, the behavior is undefined under the standard. In particular, there is no requirement to produce the "wraparound" behavior that is required when a signed integer type with a negative value is converted to an unsigned integer type. The C compiler on both platforms, and C++ on OpenVMS Alpha, are consistent about issuing a warning if such a conversion is attempted at compile-time (i.e. when the value is a compile-time constant), while C++ for OpenVMS I64 did not issue such a diagnostic for all unsigned result types. The compiler now issues warning CXX-W-FLTINTCON when converting a negative floating-point constant value to any unsigned integer type. This also causes the result value to differ from the result produced by previous versions; but this is a case where there is no consistent convention for the result value (even among the various OpenVMS compilers) that applications could rely upon. o In some cases, the compiler would treat calls to C++ functions with source names matching the names of C library functions as if they actually were calls to standard C library functions. This has been fixed, the compiler now only recognizes names of standard C library functions when the source declares them with extern "C" linkage. 4 o The /OPTIMIZE=NOINTRINSICS qualifier now has the effect of disabling automatic recognition of calls to functions declared with extern "C" linkage as being possible calls to standard C library functions. o Some problems with using multi-version support when working in a default directory lacking write permission have been fixed. o The format of the output from the /EXPORT_SYMBOLS option now assumes the long form when the compiler is run on an internal baselevel of VMS, as well as when run on OpenVMS V8.3 or later. 3 Release Notes for the V7.3 C++ Compiler This section describes enhancements, changes, and problems corrected in the C++ Version 7.3 compiler for I64 systems. HP C++ V7.3-032 is largely a bug-fix release of the compiler, although it does contain some significant new features including multiple version support, new exception processing mode pure_unix, new command line qualifier /EXPORT_SYMBOLS, and an unsupported/experimental mechanism for generating a customized machine_code listing. The following describes these features along with problems fixed and restrictions in this version. o Multiple Version Support Version 7.3 adds optional support for having multiple versions of the HP C++ compiler on your system. It works by appending an ident name to a previously installed compiler and saving it alongside the new compiler from this kit. Users on your system can then execute the sys$system:cxx$set_version.com and sys$system:cxx$show_versions.com command procedures to select the desired compiler for a given process and to view the list of available compiler versions. 5 To set this up, have your system administrator run the installation procedure, answering NO to the question about default options: Do you want the defaults for all options? [YES] NO Then answer YES to the question about making alternate compilers available: Would you like to set up your system for running alternate versions of C? [NO] YES Users can then execute the cxx$set_version.com command procedure with an argument: $ @sys$system:cxx$set_version V7.2-018 Or without an argument: $ @sys$system:cxx$set_version.com The following HP C++ compiler(s) are available in SYS$SYSTEM Filename Version Defaults ------------------------------------------------------- CXX$COMPILER.EXE T7.3-018 System Default CXX$COMPILER_T07_03-018.EXE T7.3-018 CXX$COMPILER_V07_01-011.EXE V7.1-011 CXX$COMPILER_V07_02-018.EXE V7.2-018 Enter Version number or SYSTEM: V7.1-011 Notice that when cxx$show_versions.com is executed without an argument, it displays a list of possible compilers and prompts you for a version number. Also notice that you can revert to the installed compiler by selecting SYSTEM as the version number. The cxx$set_version.com command procedure sets up the logicals CXX$COMPILER and CXX$COMPILER_MSG to point to the location of the target compiler and its message file. In addition, it issues a SET command to select the appropriate CDL file to select the correct set of qualifiers for the specified compiler version. Please remember that SET commands are not inherited by subprocesses. Make sure that all subprocesses reissue the necessary cxx$set_version.com command procedure. For a sample installation with multi-version support, please see the installation section. 6 o A startup procedure, CXX$STARTUP.COM has been added to the PCSI product install kit. It contains commands that can be executed after the product install procedure has been run and at startup to allow for the best compilation performance. You may want to invoke this command file from your system's site-specific startup file. This command file does not have to be invoked for correct operation of HP C++. o A new process-wide exception processing mode, pure_ unix, has been introduced. In this mode, non-C++ exceptions, also known as OpenVMS conditions, cannot be caught in a C++ catch-all handler. This mode can be requested by calling cxxl$set_condition(condition_ behavior) with a pure_unix argument: cxxl$set_condition(pure_unix); The condition_behavior enum declared in the header has been extended to include the pure_unix member. To demonstrate how pure_unix mode works, consider the following program. As written, it crashes with an ACCVIO. If the call to cxxl$set_condition() is commented out, the program outputs "caught" and exits. #include #include void generateACCVIO() { *((int*)0) = 0; } int main() { cxxl$set_condition(pure_unix); try { generateACCVIO(); } catch(...) { puts("caught"); } } 7 o The alignment option of the #pragma extern_model directive will now be correctly processed. Earlier releases of the compiler would silently accept and ignore any alignment option. o Optimizing the code generated for the __ATOMIC_ INCREMENT_LONG builtin function sometimes produced incorrect code. E.g. the register holding the address of the location to increment would not be set up correctly, or register r0 would be used, resulting in an access violation at run-time. This problem, and its equivalent in the _QUAD version, and both the LONG and QUAD versions of __ATOMIC_DECREMENT_* have been fixed. o In some cases, when a for loop used an unsigned int variable as the index, and compared that index in an ordered comparison against a constant of type unsigned int for the termination condition, the loop would never terminate. o In some cases, functions containing unreachable code could cause the compiler to crash when optimized. o In some cases, functions containing switch statements within a try block could be incorrectly optimized. This problem has been fixed. o A workaround was added for debugging of symbols in top level unnamed namespaces. In the debugger they will appear to be global symbols so that they can be examined. o Creating OpenVMS shareable images that contain C++ code has long been a problem for users. When building a shareable image, you must specify a list of exported 8 global symbols. For C++ code, determining this list is very difficult for the following reasons: - Required C++ name mangling makes it difficult to know the name of the external symbol created for a C++ name. - OpenVMS CRC encoding (to 31 characters) further complicates mapping source names to object names. - Certain C++ constructs require compiler-generated names to be created and exported. To help solve the problem, this release of the compiler provides a new compiler qualifier /EXPORT_SYMBOLS and new declaration modifier __declspec(dllexport). The format for /EXPORT_SYMBOLS: /EXPORT_SYMBOLS=(OPTIONS_FILE= [,EXCLUDE=] [,export_option] [,NOTEMPLATES]) The default file extension for is .OPT If the file exists, the compiler appends to it. If the file does not exist, the compiler creates it. The output for the compilation is: ! ! Entries added for ! . . . The output file is suitable input to a linker options file that can be used to build a shareable image containing the compiled object. The format of each is: SYMBOL_VECTOR=(={DATA | PROCEDURE}) ! The format is: [] [] 9 The is one of the following: *PSDM* - for promoted static data members *PTSDM* - for promoted template static data members The is output whenever the symbol is a promoted local static or a promoted template static data member. This is important because these variables, while declared static, actually become global symbols when compiled. The field is present if the symbol is a member of a class. It contains the name of the class. _______________________ Notes _______________________ - When /EXPORT_SYMBOLS is specified, an object file must also be generated. So /EXPORT_SYMBOLS cannot be used with /NOOBJ, /PREPROCESS_ONLY, or any other qualifier that prevents the creation of an object file. - When the options file already exists, the compiler reads all the symbols that are listed there. If the current compilation also defines one of those symbols, that symbol will not be added to the options file. This is necessary to prevent SYMVALRDEF warnings from the linker. - When the compiler reads the existing file, it treats SYMBOL_VECTOR directives that are in comments (of the form !SYMBOL_VECTOR...) as if they were not commented. In this way, if a user does not want to export a symbol, placing it in comments will prevent the compiler from emitting a directive for that symbol when it compiles other sources that might also define the symbol. 10 - The symbols placed in the options file are a subset of the symbols defined in the output object file. The export_option value controls exactly which symbols are placed there. There are three choices: o ALL - Place all symbols suitable for placement in a sharable image into the options file. The compiler knows that certain symbols are not suited for placement in a shareable image and excludes them from the options file. Some examples are certain compiler-generated constructor/destructor jackets and symbols in the unnamed namespace. o EXPLICIT - Place only those symbols marked with the __declspec(dllexport) declaration modifier into the options file. o AUTOMATIC (D) - If the compiler processes a __declspec(dllexport), then act as if EXPLICIT was specified. If the compiler does not process a __declspec(dllexport), then act as if ALL was specified. - The EXCLUDE option of the /EXPORT_SYMBOLS qualifier can be used to specify a list of shareable images. The compiler searches these images for any symbols that it might want to place in the output options file. If it finds the symbol in the image, then that symbol will not be put into the options file. - The NOTEMPLATES option of the /EXPORT_ SYMBOLS qualifier can be used to control the emission of symbols associated with template instantiations. Specifying this option causes the compiler to suppress symbols created by template instantiation. This includes instantiations of class templates, its data members and member functions, and instantiations of function templates. This option could be used to avoid multiple definition diagnostics from 11 the linker if multiple sharable images might be instantiating (and exporting) the same template symbols. Symbols marked with __declspec(dllexport) still get exported. This option has no effect on symbols from template specializations. Note that while this option might make the sharable images smaller by not exporting the template symbols, the executable image that links with these sharable images might be larger because it will contain the instantiated template symbols. _____________________________________________________ Expected Usage: Because shareable images almost always contain a number of objects, the commands for creating the options file the first time might be: $ DELETE options_file.OPT;* $ CXX SOURCE1/EXPORT_SYMBOLS=OPTIONS_FILE=options_file $ CXX SOURCE2/EXPORT_SYMBOLS=OPTIONS_FILE=options_file $ CXX SOURCE3/EXPORT_SYMBOLS=OPTIONS_FILE=options_file . . . $ CXX SOURCEn/EXPORT_SYMBOLS=OPTIONS_FILE=options_file Where SOURCE1 - SOURCEn are the sources for the shareable. After the compilations, the options_file.OPT will contain correct symbol vector information for the shareable. The first time this options file is created, it can be considered a candidate options file. It contains all the symbol vector entries for all the C++ globals that make sense to export from the C++ language point of view. A user can then edit this file to exclude (by commenting out) entries that should not be exported, based on the design of the library. Once an options file is created, it should be maintained for input to subsequent compilations. In this way, any new symbols caused by a change in the source will be added to the end of the compilation. Any existing symbols will not be added, as described in 12 the NOTES section above. This technique ensures that the order of symbols remains unchanged, and that future shared libraries are compatible with existing ones. o A new option to the /POINTER_SIZE=LONG qualifier is available. When /POINTER_SIZE=LONG=ARGV is specified, the argv argument to main will be comprised of long pointers instead of the short pointers. This can make using long pointers easier as the pointer size of argv will match the default pointer size for the compilation. o Calls to the CRTL function tempnam() were recognized as intrinsic, and could be optimized not to set up the argument information register (R25). This could cause the function to behave erratically at run-time, because the CRTL implementation of tempnam() supports a non- standard optional 3rd parameter to control the style of the filename it produces, and thus it uses the value in R25 to determine how it should behave. The compiler no longer performs this erroneous optimization. o Calls to the CRTL function time() were recognized as intrinsic, and could be optimized not to set up the argument information register (R25). This could cause the function to behave erratically at run-time, because of an undocumented CRTL feature that allows a call to the time() function without an argument to be treated the same as a call with a NULL pointer argument. So if the R25 register happened to contain a zero at the point of call, the function would only return the time value, and fail to store it into the memory pointed-to by the argument to the call. The compiler no longer performs this erroneous optimization. o In some unusual situations where an object was constructed within an inner block that "could" be exited via an exception (but wasn't), the destructor for the object could be invoked a second time, after 13 the destructor invoked at the end of the object's scope. This problem has been fixed. o Several problems involving bad sign extensions when using /POINTER=64 have been corrected. o A bug causing the compiler to crash when performing pointer arithmetic on function pointers has been fixed. o The compiler no longer emits incorrect MAYLOSEDATA diagnostics for some simple expressions such as when the address of a local variable is assigned to a short pointer. o When compiling with the /STANDARD=ARM qualifier, user-defined conversion functions are not called when casting to a reference. This matches the behavior of the Alpha compiler in the /STANDARD=ARM mode. o The diagnostic UNINIT issued when more than one member of a union is initialized, now has a severity of ERROR. Previously, it had a severity of WARNING. o The diagnostic VIRSTAT issued when a static member function is declared with the virtual keyword, now has a severity of ERROR. Previously, it had a severity of WARNING. o The text for the diagnostic BADINITYP issued when a pointer to a bound function is used in expressions other than to call it, has been modified to make the diagnostic clearer. o A bug in the compiler which caused some sign extensions to be missing when right-shifting signed values, has been fixed. 14 o A problem was fixed with numbering of group sections when more than 65K sections were needed. o Beginning with this release the compiler will generate the source correlation records used by debug and the traceback facility to map a source file and line number onto the familiar listing line numbers used by VMS. This resolves various problems with source correlation when using templates and when a include files are included more than once in the same compilation unit. When using C++ you will now see listing line numbers from traceback and from the debugger. You will no longer see unix-like source file line numbers. o A bug making it impossible for the program to catch C++ exceptions after a kill() signal was received and caught by the signal handler has been fixed but requires the runtime components kit VMS83I_ICXXL-V0100, VMS821I_ICXXL-V0200 or higher. o Improvements have been made in the demangling information for thunks. Thunks are now clearly marked as such in the repository and in the object for the debugger. Also, a bug was fixed where the unmangled name for a thunk that was not defined in the current module was incorrect. Previous versions of the compiler generated an incor- rect demangled name for the thunk CXX$ZTHN4N6PARENT5PRINTV019MIAE when compiling the test case below. The unmangled name in the cxx_reprository now appears as: "non-virtual THUNK for unsigned int parent::print()". 15 // classes.h // struct base { virtual char * name() { return "Unknown"; } }; struct base2 { virtual unsigned int print() = 0; }; // switching order of base and base2 // makes thunk error go away struct parent : base, base2 { unsigned int print(); }; struct child : parent { child() {} }; // thunk.cxx #include "classes.h" int main() { child c; return 0; } Note: A thunk is a segment of code associated with a target function, that is called instead of the target function for the purpose of modifying parameters (for example, the this pointer) or other parts of the environment before transferring control to the target function, and possibly making further modifications after its return. 16 o The IA64 ABI requires that "wrapper" routines be provided around constructors and destructors. The compiler now generates an unmangled name prefix of "$complete$" for the C1/D1 wrappers, "$subobject$" for C2/D2 wrappers, and "$deleting$" for D0 wrappers. Initial versions of the V7.2 compiler placed the prefix in a different part of the unmangled name when generating repository names than when generating debugger unmangled names. The compiler is now more consistent. o Certain cases using #pragma message() could cause the compiler to crash. This problem has been fixed. o Certain code constructs would cause an assertion in the compiler in the routine do_all_namespace_member_ promotion. This problem has been fixed. o The HP C++ V7.2 release changed the severity of certain NEVERDEF diagnostics from -W- to -E-. This update kit changes the severity back to -W-. o In cases where the second operand of the conditional (?:) operator was a string literal, the compiler could generate bad code if the /POINTER_SIZE=LONG qualifier was specified. This has been corrected. o The compiler no longer accepts the __inline and __inline__ language extensions when /STANDARD=STRICT or LATEST is specified. o When /STAND=GNU is specifed, the HP C++ V7.2 compiler would sometimes emit an incorrect OPNDNOTCLS diagnos- tic. This has been corrected. 17 o The V7.2-018 compiler would crash if static data members were declared in the common_block extern_model. As some C++ header file contain such declarations, including those headers in a non-default extern_ model could cause a compiler crash. For example, the following would crash the compiler: #pragma extern_model common_block #include This update corrects the compiler crash. Take great care when using the non-default extern_ model. The main purpose of extern_model is to allow C++ to share global data with code written in other languages. Declarations that cause data to be allocated according to the C++ object model, that is, declarations for other than POD (Plain Old Data) objects, cannot generally be shared reliably with other languages, and should only appear in regions of source that are subject to the default extern_model of relaxed_refdef. Within regions of source subject to an extern_model other than relaxed_refdef, declarations that allocate data with names visible to the linker should be limited exclusively to POD types. In particular, declaring a C++ class containing a static data member within such a region might produce unintended behavior. o The use of the += operator where the left operand was a 64-bit pointer could produce incorrect results. This has been corrected. o Certain parameter information placed in the demangler database would sometimes contain too many levels of indirection. This has been corrected. o Certain programs that were compiled /DEBUG/POINTER_ SIZE=32 and also contained #pragma pointer_size 64 directives could crash the compiler with an access 18 violation in TAG_Emit_Subprogram. This problem has been corrected. o Using the operator new in a mixed pointer-size compilation could sometimes cause the compiler to crash with with an assert in CAREA:[SRC.IPF.EDGCPFE]EXPR.C;1. This has been corrected. o If a user program tried to define an overloaded function called mktemp, the compiler would not create the mangled names correctly. This could lead to only one function being created. This problem has been corrected. o While creating the unmangled routine name information for the demangler database, the compiler would access an internal representation of the parameter types that sometimes could be NULL. Instead of then accessing another internal representation which provides the same information, the compiler was incorrectly raising an assertion about the NULL value. This has been fixed. o In the C++ language run-time support library, the implementation was incorrectly assuming that the elements in an internal linked list would get reused, and were not being deallocated. These elements were not being reused and therefore resulted in a memory leak. The library now deallocates the elements in the linked list as soon as they are not needed. o The C++ language run-time support library, was not initially coded with the ability to be loaded into the 64-bit address space. As a result, when applications were linked with /SEGMENT_ATTRIBUTE=CODE=P2, or when the library was installed resident, the library would sometimes produce an accvio. This has been fixed. 19 o Restriction: The link command qualifier /SEGMENT_ ATTRIBUTE=CODE=P2 causes the executable code for an image to be loaded into P2 space when the image is activated. The code generated by the C++ compiler for 32-bit pointer applications (that is, compilations that do not specify the /POINTER_SIZE qualifier, or that specify /POINTER_SIZE=32), is not generally compatible with this link qualifier. While some 32- bit C++ compilations may run correctly when linked this way, the code is likely to encounter an access violation at run-time; and 32-bit code compiled with optimization disabled is more likely to fail than code compiled with optimization enabled. The link command qualifier /SEGMENT_ATTRIBUTE=CODE=P2 should only be used when all C++ compilations in the program are compiled with /POINTER_SIZE=64, and when the C++ libraries supplied with this kit (or newer) are used. The previous libraries had a problem that could cause a run-time accvio in 64-bit C++ code that used exceptions and was linked with /SEGMENT_ ATTRIBUTE=CODE=P2. o Unsupported machine_code listing mechanism. An experimental/unsupported feature has been added to the compiler which causes it to invoke a user- controllable sub-process to produce the disassembly style of machine code listing (i.e. the listing that is produced under /LIST/MACHINE_CODE/OBJECT). This experimental behavior is triggered and controlled by logical names at compile time. Of particular note is that if the "gawk" stream editing program is available on the system, then if logical name DECCXX$GAWK_EXE is defined to point to the executable image for gawk, and logical name DECCXX$MACH_LIST_SCRIPT is defined as NL: then the compiler will attempt to generate and invoke a DCL script that runs both ANALYZE/OBJECT/DISASSEMBLE and ANALYZE/OBJECT/SECTION=DEBUG=LINE on the object module produced by the compiler. The generated DCL script then runs a gawk script that produces the machine 20 code listing by editing the ANALYZE/OBJECT/DISASSEMBLE output to: o output a table of source files read by the compiler, with each file numbered for reference; o append a //-style comment with the listing line number, source file number, and line number within source file, to each machine code instruction for which the source information differs from the information for the preceding instruction; o append a //-style comment with the demangled name (from the demangler database in the repository) to each line that contains the label symbol that begins a function definition. This behavior is suppressed if a logical name or DCL symbol definition for DECCXX$MACH_LIST_NODEMANGLE exists, the purpose being to prevent the gawk script from reading the entire demangler database file into memory. Note that gawk can be obtained from the OpenVMS FreeWare CD, e.g. by downloading it from http://openvms.compaq.com/freeware/freeware80/. Instead of defining logical DECCXX$MACH_LIST_SCRIPT to NL:, the user may also define it to point to an existing DCL script. If the name resolves to an existing readable file with non-zero length, the compiler will attempt to invoke it as a DCL script, passing it two arguments: the filespec for the object module it generated, and the filespec for the repository (appending "CXX$DEMANGLER_DB." to the second argument produces the name of the demangler database). That script might or might not use DECCXX$GAWK_EXE - the compiler itself does not do anything with that logical name, the use of it is only within the DCL script that the compiler generates if DECCXX$MACH_LIST_ SCRIPT is defined but does not resolve to a readable file with non-zero length. In the case when the compiler generates the DCL script that it invokes, the script is created with the name "SYS$SCRATCH:CXXLIS_''F$UNIQUE()'.COM", and the compiler deletes the script after it has been invoked. But if DCL symbol MACH_LIST_SCRIPT$DEBUG 21 is defined with a value of 1, then the compiler does not delete the script it generated. Additionally, the generated script itself tests if DCL symbol MACH_LIST_ SCRIPT$DEBUG is defined with a non-zero value, and if so it: o turns on DCL verification; o enables debugging output in the gawk script it generates and runs; o does not delete the three temporary files it cre- ates, in files "SYS$SCRATCH:ZZCODE-''F$UNIQUE()'.ANL- DIS", "SYS$SCRATCH:ZZCODE-''F$UNIQUE()'.ANL-LINES", and "SYS$SCRATCH:ZZCODE-''F$UNIQUE()'.GAWK". It cannot be overemphasized that this is an experi- mental feature. Problems encountered by the scripts may not be handled gracefully, and may well exhaust resources. Improperly-defined logical names will typically cause the listing to revert to its normal form as if the logicals were not defined, although certainly other less desirable behaviors could occur. The feature has been only minimally tested on relatively small compilations, but in those cases the output produced was accurate and very useful, and that is why it is being made available for experimental use. There is no assurance that this mechanism, or the form of output it produces, will be continued in future releases of the compiler. 4 Known Problems in V7.3-032 The following are known problems in this release of the compiler: o The #pragma extern_model directive does not support the alignment options PAGE and 16. o The compiler might emit an erroneous BADANSIALIASn message. In some situations the compiler's loop unrolling optimization can generate memory accesses in the code stream that never actually execute at run-time, but that would violate the ANSI Aliasing rules if they did 22 occur. In such a situation, the compiler might emit an erroneous BADANSIALIASn message, where n is a number or is omitted. If the violations take place only in machine instruc- tions that will not execute at run-time, these messages can be safely ignored. To determine whether or not particular instances of a BADANSIALIASn message are erroneous, recompile the module with the /OPT=UNROLL=1 qualifier. Any BADANSIALIASn messages that disapper under that qualifier can be safely ignored, so you may want to add appropriate #pragma message directives to the source, localized to the specific source lines known to be safe. This is preferable to disabling the message for the whole compilation, since in all other cases the message indicates a real potential for code generation that will not work as intended. And this is generally preferable to disabling the ANSI_ALIAS or loop unrolling optimizations, since that would likely degrade performance, although the amount of degradation is not predictable, and in unusual cases it might even improve performance. As always when making changes to performance-critical code, it is best to measure the impact. 5 Enhancements, Changes, and Problems Corrected in the V7.3-032 C++ Standard Library The following problems are fixed in this version of the C++ Library: o As described in code_example(), __introsort_loop() function in code_example() header has a bug which, for some input sequences, can adversely affect performance of std::sort. See the Apache tracker for the issue STDCXX-397 at URL above for more details. The bug has been fixed. However, for some input sequences, the fix can change the behaviour of std::sort with regard to the relative order in which elements that have equivalent ordering are placed into the sorted sequence. While this change in behaviour 23 is permissible because, unlike std::stable_sort, std::sort does not guarantee any particular relative order of elements having equivalent ordering, to avoid breaking applications that rely on existing behaviour of std::sort, the fix is conditionalized with __RW_ FIX_APACHE_STDCXX_397 macro and is in effect only when the program is compiled with this macro defined. [L2028] o When compiled in standard GNU mode, the library now defines the _RWSTD_NO_IMPLICIT_INCLUSION macro which causes library headers to #include their respective template definition files. This is necessary because in standard GNU mode, implicit inclusion is disabled. Before this change, the program below would link with undefined symbol when compiled in standard GNU mode: #include int main() { std::vector v; v.push_back(0); } o According to section 27.6.1.3 [lib.istream.unformatted] of the C++ Standard, the following get member functions of the std::basic_istream class should call setstate(failbit) if no characters have been stored, as is the case for an empty line. While on I64 systems the functions set failbit, on Alpha systems they do not: istream_type& get(char_type *s, streamsize n, char_type delim); istream_type& get(char_type *s, streamsize n); See Section 9.4.5 for more information. 6 Release Notes for the V7.2 C++ Compiler This section describes enhancements, changes, and problems corrected in the C++ Version 7.2 compiler for I64 systems. 24 6.1 New Name Mangling/Prefixing Requires Recompile from Source ________________________Note ________________________ The V7.2 compiler generates different mangled names from V7.1 for user code. For 32-bit (default) compilations, V7.2 prefixes mangled names with "CX3$", where V7.1 used "CXX$". C++ library names remain unchanged, using the "CXXL$" prefix for 32- bit code. Applications built with the V7.1 compiler must be fully-recompiled from source when moving to V7.2. An application containing both "CXX$" and "CX3$" prefixed names will not work correctly. _____________________________________________________ The introduction of 64-bit pointer support, described later, uncovered some errors in the names generated by the V7.1 compiler that could introduce incorrect run-time behaviors in standard-conforming programs without any diagnostic. These behaviors could range anywhere from harmless, to subtle, to access violations - and they are very difficult to diagnose. Basically, the names generated for certain globals such as initialization guard variables, vtables, and RTTI information used to identify exceptions embed the names of types. Type names must always be treated as case-sensitive in either C or C++. The V7.1 compiler erroneously treated these names, if they happened to be less than 32-characters long, as being subject to the /NAMES= command-line qualifier, which by default uppercases them. In addition, some of these names were not being given the facility prefix of "CXX$", even though they were compiler-generated and not explicitly present in the source code. Because the I64 implementation uses object module "group sections" (sometimes called comdats) to enforce the C++ "one definition" rule, a mismatch in generated names usually results in more than one definition for the same source entity without any diagnostic; whereas on OpenVMS Alpha or in languages other than C++, a mismatch usually results in a link-time diagnostic for an unresolved reference. 25 V7.1 was the initial release of the I64 compiler, and the effects of mismatches caused by the V7.1 naming bugs can be very subtle and difficult to diagnose. And it was important to make the mangled names produced by V7.2 for 64-bit compilations not only correct but identical to the names it produces for 32-bit compilations (except for the prefix that distinguishes the pointer-size model). Therefore it was decided to change the default prefix for 32-bit compilations in order to distinguish object code that could contain the naming bugs (prefixed by "CXX$") from object code that does not contain the naming bugs (prefixed by "CX3$"). Applications that are linked from object modules against the C++ library shareables should not be affected when fully recompiled from source using the new compiler and relinked. Shareable images built from 32-bit C++ object modules would not generally have universal symbols prefixed by the compiler's default prefix, but rather they would normally use #pragma extern_prefix to give their universals their own namespace (or export only C-linkage names, which are unchanged in V7.2). Users of such libraries would be unaffected unless one or more universals they use actually were affected by a naming bug. From experience with the C++ libraries this is thought to be relatively uncommon. And in that case, the build of the shareable image would fail when first built from object modules compiled by the new compiler, because correcting the naming bug would change the name of such a symbol. The library provider would then need to change the symbol vector to provide the new name as a universal, and alias the old name to it, which would again leave users of the library unaffected regardless of whether they compiled with the old or new compiler. For shareable images built from object modules compiled by V7.1 that did not use #pragma extern_prefix, but instead directly exported symbols prefixed by "CXX$" (or exported erroneously unprefixed mangled names, which can be recognized as those beginning with "_Z"), the link would also fail when built from objects produced by V7.2. But in this case all of the symbol vector entries would 26 fail because the prefixes would be different. A solution would be a global edit to the options file to change all of the "CXX$" prefixes to "CX3$", and prepend "CX3$" to all symbols beginning with "_Z", and relink. Failures in the relink would identify symbols that were affected by the naming bugs, and those would need to be corrected as in the preceding paragraph. Finally, aliases would need to be added from the original names to the new names to make the shareable usable to code produced by either V7.1 or V7.2 compilers. For code that must link against object modules or shareable images that cannot be recompiled from source, and which contain names affected by the naming bugs (note this does *not* include the C++ libraries), the simplest soulution is to use the V7.1 compiler if any such code needs to be recompiled. If that is not feasible, unsupported switches may be available from your support contact to ease this situation. The need to avoid mixing V7.1 32-bit object modules with V7.2 32-bit object modules cannot be over-emphasized - compiling one module with V7.2 requires full recompilation from source of all object modules. The primary purpose of changing the default prefix is to make mixing easy to detect by examining the link map: if the map contains both "CXX$" names and "CX3$" names, the modules containing "CXX$" names need to be recompiled by the new compiler. 6.2 64-bit Runtime Libraries The runtime libraries for HP C++ ship with the OpenVMS operating system. This compiler kit adds support for 64- bit pointers, which requires the 64-bit runtime libraries be available. Those new libraries will ship with a future release of the OpenVMS operating system. A patch kit for the ICXXL component of the operating system is available which provides the new libraries for older versions of the operating system. 27 6.3 64-bit Pointer Support This version of the compiler adds support for 64-bit pointers. This support is compatible with the 64-bit pointer support in the OpenVMS Alpha C++ and C compilers. It supports the same /POINTER_SIZE command-line qualifier, the __INITIAL_POINTER_SIZE predefined macro, and the same pragmas (#pragma pointer_size and #pragma required_ pointer_size). However, the basic model for how and where pointers with a size different from the default size (the size specified by the command-line qualifier) can be declared and used in the language is considerably more limited than it is in the other compilers. ________________________Note ________________________ Limitations on the use of non-default-sized pointers are not generally diagnosed or enforced by the compiler. Programs that do not follow the model of mixed-size pointer usage outlined below are likely to fail at run-time without any compile-time diagnostic. _____________________________________________________ The best-supported model of 64-bit pointer usage is when the command line uses the /POINTER_SIZE=64 qualifier, called a 64-bit compilation. In that case the entire C++ program is considered to use 64-bit addressing, with a few exceptions made to permit the use of data structures containing 32-bit pointers that are needed to communicate with OpenVMS services and other non-C++ libraries. Such data structures naturally contain only pointers to POD types, and the functions that operate on those types naturally have extern "C" linkage. The declarations of those data structures and functions reside in header files, and those header files are coded to use the __INITIAL_POINTER_SIZE macro and the pointer_size pragmas to ensure that they use appropriately-sized pointers regardless of the compilation mode. Except for those declarations, all addresses, pointers, and references in a C++ program compiled with /POINTER_SIZE=64, are considered to be 64-bit types, and all C++ "new" operators allocate data from a 64-bit heap. 28 If the command line specifies the /POINTER_SIZE=32 qualifier, then it is a 32-bit compilation, and the only use of 64-bit pointers can be pointers to POD types provided by calls to _malloc64(), or obtained from other non-C++ code. While it is possible to use #pragma pointer_size 32 to declare 32-bit pointers explicitly within a 64- bit compilation, the region of source code covered by such pragmas should be made as small as possible, and preferably confined just to typedefs for pointer types that must be 32-bit pointers. In general, the source region should not contain class definitions for non-POD types, template declarations, declarations of functions that have C++ linkage, or executable code. This differs significantly from C++ for OpenVMS Alpha, which permits C++ classes to be defined with 32-bit pointers in a 64-bit compilation. Another significant difference is that the Alpha compiler attempts to determine the "best" pointer size to use when determining the type of an "address-of" expression. It uses the fact that on OpenVMS, C++ declared objects (either stack-based or static-extent) always have addresses that fit in 32-bits; and for expressions that involve pointer-dereferencing it uses the width of the pointer that was dereferenced as the width of the pointer type given to the expression. This usually allows address- of expressions to be assigned to pointers without casting. In 64-bit mode, the I64 compiler assumes that an address- of expression will yield a 64-bit pointer unless its operand is a dereference of a 32-bit pointer, and so it may issue spurious NARROWPTR warnings for assignments of address-of expressions to 32-bit pointers; an explicit cast to the correct 32-bit pointer type is needed to silence the warning. As a special case, 64-bit pointer- to-function values may be assigned to 32-bit pointer- to-function objects without complaint (the value of a function pointer always fits in 32-bits on OpenVMS). Neither Alpha nor I64 compilers include the pointer size when forming mangled names, so naturally it is not possible to overload functions based only on differences in pointer size: the Alpha compiler reports this 29 explicitly at compile time when possible, but on I64 it will just produce conflicting multiple definitions. In general, if a 32-bit pointer type needs to appear in a function prototype in a 64-bit compilation, it is a good practice to define a struct type just to hold the pointer, and pass the struct instead of the pointer type. Except for names declared with extern "C" linkage, the I64 compiler produces completely disjoint external symbols in the object modules for 64-bit compilations and 32-bit compilations. For 64-bit compilations, user-declared names are prefixed by "CX6$" (instead of "CX3$"), and library names are prefixed by "CX6L$" (instead of "CXXL$"). Following the prefix, names are mangled identically in the two modes, so a given source declaration will produce the same name in the object module differing only by the prefix if compiled in different modes. So while it is possible to include both 32-bit and 64-bit compilations in the same program, they will not interact with each other except through extern "C" linkage names. 6.3.1 Pointer_Size Control Differences Although the syntax and use of pointer_size controls are the same for Alpha and I64, and most programs that work correctly on Alpha should also work on I64 without change, the differences in the compiler's model of how the pointer_size controls work on the two platforms can affect behavior, particularly in programs that create pointers to C++ objects (non-POD types) having a size that differs from the setting of the /POINTER_SIZE command- line qualifier, or that apply the sizeof operator to expressions that have a pointer type: o On Alpha systems, the compiler uses an object model that generally supports the declaration and use of both 64-bit and 32-bit pointers, and the #pragma pointer_ size directives can be placed at most any point in the source code. The pointer_size in effect at any given point in the source generally influences both the size of pointers created for explicit pointer declarations, and also the size of pointers generated by the compiler to implement various language constructs. There are some restrictions such as no overloading of functions based on pointer size, but generally speaking the size 30 of individual pointer types and the current setting of the pointer_size from the #pragmas is taken into account at fairly low levels, and pointers to C++ objects (non-POD types) can be of either size. Modules compiled with one setting of /POINTER_SIZE can in some cases interoperate with code compiled with a different setting, although this is not a good practice. And in general, the result of the address-of operator (&) has a pointer type whose size reflects the current pointer size. o On I64 systems, the /POINTER_SIZE command-line qualifier plays a much larger role than on Alpha systems. This qualifier chooses between two different, incompatible, binary models for C++ code generation. Functions with C++ linkage produced under /POINTER_ SIZE=64 cannot be called from functions with C++ linkage produced under /POINTER_SIZE=32 (the default with no /POINTER_SIZE qualifier), and vice-versa. And 64-bit compilations use a completely separate implementation of the C++ libraries from 32-bit compilations. Furthermore, the /POINTER_SIZE qualifier on I64 con- trols much more completely the compiler's determination of pointer size throughout the compilation. Basically, the only pointer types that are given a size different from the size specified on the command line are pointer types explicitly declared with the "*" declarator syntax in the context of a #pragma pointer_size. And the only pointer types that should be given a pointer_ size different from that specified by the command line are pointers to POD types. Pointers to non-POD types, as well as all implicitly-generated pointer type are assumed to have the size specified by the command line. Of special note, the address-of operator (&) generally produces a pointer whose size is based on the size specified by the command line. This is a difference from Alpha. The one exception is when the operator is applied to a pointer dereference, in which case the result is the size of the dereferenced pointer. This exception matches the Alpha behavior. 31 The compiler does not diagnose the use of pointers having a size different from the command-line size that point to non-POD types; in some situations such pointers may produce intended results, but in general their use may cause unexpected behaviors or access violations at run-time. The following example program illustrates some of these differences: #include #if __INITIAL_POINTER_SIZE == 64 #define CMD "/POINT=64" #else #define CMD "/POINT=32" #endif #if __ALPHA #define MACH "Alpha" #else #define MACH "I64 " #endif void main(void) { printf(MACH CMD ":\n"); { #pragma __required_pointer_size 64 #define SZ " #pragma 64: " int i; printf(SZ "sizeof(&i) = %d.\n", sizeof(&i)); printf(SZ "value of &i = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&i); printf(SZ "sizeof(&\"str\"[1]) = %d.\n", sizeof(&"str"[1])); printf(SZ "value of &\"str\"[1] = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&"str"[1]); const char array[] = "str"; printf(SZ "sizeof(&array[1]) = %d.\n", sizeof(&array[1])); printf(SZ "value of &array[1] = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&array[1]); 32 printf(SZ "sizeof(new int) = %d.\n", sizeof(new int)); printf(SZ "value of (new int) = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)new int); char *newcp = new char[2]; printf(SZ "sizeof(newcp) = %d.\n", sizeof(newcp)); printf(SZ "value of newcp = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)newcp); printf(SZ "sizeof(&newcp[1]) = %d.\n", sizeof(&newcp[1])); printf(SZ "value of &newcp[1] = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&newcp[1]); } printf("\n" MACH CMD ":\n"); { #pragma __required_pointer_size 32 #undef SZ #define SZ " #pragma 32: " int i; printf(SZ "sizeof(&i) = %d.\n", sizeof(&i)); printf(SZ "value of &i = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&i); printf(SZ "sizeof(&\"str\"[1]) = %d.\n", sizeof(&"str"[1])); printf(SZ "value of &\"str\"[1] = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&"str"[1]); const char array[] = "str"; printf(SZ "sizeof(&array[1]) = %d.\n", sizeof(&array[1])); printf(SZ "value of &array[1] = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&array[1]); printf(SZ "sizeof(new int) = %d.\n", sizeof(new int)); printf(SZ "value of (new int) = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)new int); char *newcp = new char[2]; printf(SZ "sizeof(newcp) = %d.\n", sizeof(newcp)); printf(SZ "value of newcp = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)newcp); printf(SZ "sizeof(&newcp[1]) = %d.\n", sizeof(&newcp[1])); printf(SZ "value of &newcp[1] = 0x%016llx.\n", (long long)&newcp[1]); } } Output on I64 with /POINTER=32 Note that all of the pointer sizes, except for the explicitly declared 64-bit pointer variable, and the address of an array element access made through that pointer variable, reflect the command-line setting: 33 $ pipe cxx/point=32 pointers ; cxxlink pointers ; run pointers I64 /POINT=32: #pragma 64: sizeof(&i) = 4. #pragma 64: value of &i = 0x000000007acffb28. #pragma 64: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 4. #pragma 64: value of &"str"[1] = 0x0000000000040001. #pragma 64: sizeof(&array[1]) = 4. #pragma 64: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007acffb11. #pragma 64: sizeof(new int) = 4. #pragma 64: value of (new int) = 0x00000000001e0b70. #pragma 64: sizeof(newcp) = 8. #pragma 64: value of newcp = 0x00000000001e0b50. #pragma 64: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &newcp[1] = 0x00000000001e0b51. I64 /POINT=32: #pragma 32: sizeof(&i) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &i = 0x000000007acffb30. #pragma 32: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &"str"[1] = 0x0000000000040001. #pragma 32: sizeof(&array[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007acffb21. #pragma 32: sizeof(new int) = 4. #pragma 32: value of (new int) = 0x00000000001e3690. #pragma 32: sizeof(newcp) = 4. #pragma 32: value of newcp = 0x00000000001e3670. #pragma 32: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &newcp[1] = 0x00000000001e3671. Output on Alpha with /POINTER=32 Note that all of the pointer sizes, except for the result type of the "new" operator, reflect the pragma setting: 34 $ pipe cxx/point=32 pointers ; cxxlink pointers ; run pointers Alpha/POINT=32: #pragma 64: sizeof(&i) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &i = 0x000000007ad8f9e0. #pragma 64: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &"str"[1] = 0x00000000000145e1. #pragma 64: sizeof(&array[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007ad8f9d9. #pragma 64: sizeof(new int) = 4. #pragma 64: value of (new int) = 0x000000000007f310. #pragma 64: sizeof(newcp) = 8. #pragma 64: value of newcp = 0x0000000000083350. #pragma 64: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &newcp[1] = 0x0000000000083351. Alpha/POINT=32: #pragma 32: sizeof(&i) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &i = 0x000000007ad8f9d0. #pragma 32: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &"str"[1] = 0x00000000000145e1. #pragma 32: sizeof(&array[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007ad8f9c9. #pragma 32: sizeof(new int) = 4. #pragma 32: value of (new int) = 0x0000000000083cb0. #pragma 32: sizeof(newcp) = 4. #pragma 32: value of newcp = 0x0000000000083cc0. #pragma 32: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &newcp[1] = 0x0000000000083cc1. Output on I64 with /POINTER=64 Note that all of the pointer sizes, except the explicitly declared 32-bit pointer variable, and the address of an array element access made through that pointer variable, reflect the command-line setting. The warning message identifies a real problem where the 64-bit pointer produced by "new" does not fit into the 32-bit pointer variable newcp, and the value of newcp reflects this by being sign-extended: 35 $ pipe cxx/point=64 pointers ; cxxlink pointers ; run pointers char *newcp = new char[2]; .................^ %CXX-W-MAYLOSEDATA, cast from long pointer to short pointer will lose data. at line number 54 in file DISK$:[DIR]POINTERS.CXX;1 %ILINK-W-COMPWARN, compilation warnings module: POINTERS file: DISK$:[DIR]POINTERS.OBJ;1 I64 /POINT=64: #pragma 64: sizeof(&i) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &i = 0x000000007acffb28. #pragma 64: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &"str"[1] = 0x0000000000040001. #pragma 64: sizeof(&array[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007acffb11. #pragma 64: sizeof(new int) = 8. #pragma 64: value of (new int) = 0x000000008009c010. #pragma 64: sizeof(newcp) = 8. #pragma 64: value of newcp = 0x000000008009c030. #pragma 64: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &newcp[1] = 0x000000008009c031. I64 /POINT=64: #pragma 32: sizeof(&i) = 8. #pragma 32: value of &i = 0x000000007acffb30. #pragma 32: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 8. #pragma 32: value of &"str"[1] = 0x0000000000040001. #pragma 32: sizeof(&array[1]) = 8. #pragma 32: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007acffb21. #pragma 32: sizeof(new int) = 8. #pragma 32: value of (new int) = 0x000000008009c050. #pragma 32: sizeof(newcp) = 4. #pragma 32: value of newcp = 0xffffffff8009c070. #pragma 32: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &newcp[1] = 0xffffffff8009c071. 36 Output on Alpha with /POINTER=64 Note that all of the pointer sizes reflect the pragma setting, except for the result type of the "new" operator. The warning message identifies the same problem identified on I64, and the value of newcp similarly reflects this by being sign-extended: $ pipe cxx/point=64 pointers ; cxxlink pointers ; run pointers char *newcp = new char[2]; .................^ %CXX-W-MAYLOSEDATA, cast from long pointer to short pointer will lose data. at line number 54 in file DISK$:[DIR]POINTERS.CXX;1 %LINK-W-WRNERS, compilation warnings in module POINTERS file DISK$:[DIR]POINTERS.OBJ;1 Alpha/POINT=64: #pragma 64: sizeof(&i) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &i = 0x000000007ad8f9e0. #pragma 64: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &"str"[1] = 0x00000000000145e1. #pragma 64: sizeof(&array[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007ad8f9d9. #pragma 64: sizeof(new int) = 8. #pragma 64: value of (new int) = 0x0000000080000010. #pragma 64: sizeof(newcp) = 8. #pragma 64: value of newcp = 0x0000000080000030. #pragma 64: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 8. #pragma 64: value of &newcp[1] = 0x0000000080000031. Alpha/POINT=64: #pragma 32: sizeof(&i) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &i = 0x000000007ad8f9d0. #pragma 32: sizeof(&"str"[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &"str"[1] = 0x00000000000145e1. #pragma 32: sizeof(&array[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &array[1] = 0x000000007ad8f9c9. #pragma 32: sizeof(new int) = 8. #pragma 32: value of (new int) = 0x0000000080000050. #pragma 32: sizeof(newcp) = 4. #pragma 32: value of newcp = 0xffffffff80000070. #pragma 32: sizeof(&newcp[1]) = 4. #pragma 32: value of &newcp[1] = 0xffffffff80000071. 37 6.3.2 Mixed Pointer-Size Allocators Mixed pointer-size allocators are placement-new allocators accepting addr_32 and addr_64 parameters. They are documented in Chapter 9.1.2 Memory Allocators in the HP C++ User's Guide for OpenVMS Systems. On both OpenVMS Alpha and I64 systems, these allocators are implemented in the header file. Note the following differences between mixed pointer-size allocators on OpenVMS Alpha and I64 systems: o On Alpha systems, addr_32_space and addr_64_space enums are in the global namespace. On I64 systems, they are in the namespace __deccxx. The header has the 'using namespace __deccxx;' directive; so, in general, there is no need to specify a fully qualified name, and the code from an Alpha system can be compiled on an I64 system without any changes. However, if an ambiguity arises, a fully qualified name can be specified on an I64 system: new(__deccxx::addr_ 32_space) or new(__deccxx::addr_64_space). o On I64 systems, the new(addr_64_space) allocator can be used only in compilations with /POINTER=LONG, where it returns a long pointer to memory allocated in 64-bit space. On I64 systems in compilations with /POINTER=SHORT, this allocator returns a NULL pointer, and the compiler issues the ADDR64NOT diagnostics. See the example below. Also, on I64 systems in compilations with /POINTER=SHORT, the size of the pointer (having a zero value) returned by this allocator is 4. On Alpha systems, the new(addr_64_space) allocator returns a long pointer to memory allocated in 64-bit space in compilations with both /POINTER=SHORT and /POINTER=LONG. On I64 systems, the new(addr_64_space) allocator is retained only to allow code compiled on Alpha systems with /POINTER=LONG to be compiled on I64 with /POINTER=LONG without any changes. 38 x.cxx below demonstrates the difference in behavior of the new(addr_64_space) allocator on I64 and Alpha systems. Note that the behavior of the new(addr_32_space) allocator is the same on both platforms. x.cxx ----- #include #include main() { __char_ptr32 x; __char_ptr64 y; x = new (addr_32) char; y = new (addr_64) char; printf("x = %llx, y = %llx\n", x, y); printf("sizeof(new(addr_32)) = %d, sizeof(new(addr_64)) = %d\n", sizeof(new(addr_32) char), sizeof(new(addr_64) char)); } The output on Alpha system: --------------------------- $ pipe cxx/pointer=short x.cxx ; cxxlink x.obj ; run x.exe x = 78690 y = 80000010 sizeof(new(addr_32)) = 4 sizeof(new(addr_64)) = 8 $ pipe cxx/pointer=long x.cxx ; cxxlink x.obj ; run x.exe x = 78690 y = 80000010 sizeof(new(addr_32)) = 4 sizeof(new(addr_64)) = 8 $ The output on I64 system: -------------------------- $ pipe cxx/pointer=long x.cxx ; cxxlink x.obj ; run x.exe x = 1f48e0 y = 8009c010 sizeof(new(addr_32)) = 4 sizeof(new(addr_64)) = 8 $ pipe cxx/pointer=short x.cxx ; cxxlink x.obj ; run x.exe y = new (addr_64) char; ...........^ %CXX-W-ADDR64NOT, Use of std::addr_64 in placement new requires /POINTER_SIZE=LONG on this platform. 39 sizeof(new (addr_32) char), sizeof(new (addr_64) char)); .................................................^ %CXX-W-ADDR64NOT, Use of std::addr_64 in placement new requires /POINTER_SIZE=LONG on this platform. x = 1f88d0 y = 0 sizeof(new(addr_32)) = 4 sizeof(new(addr_64)) = 4 $ 6.4 Other Enhancements, Changes, and Problems Corrected o Variadic macros are now supported. This feature allows macros to take a variable number of arguments. It was added to Version 6.4 of the HP C Compiler and is supported by a number other C and C++ compilers. This feature is available only when the value of the /STANDARD qualifier is RELAXED (the default), MS, or GNU. o This version of the C++ compiler contains support for generation of a new section type in the object file that maps mangled names to their original unmangled form. Future versions of the linker will take advantage of this feature by using the demangled spelling of an identifier name for its error messages. In addition, the linker will be able to generate a new section in the linker map that shows mangled names and their corresponding unmangled orginal name. o Prologue and epilogue file header processing is now supported in HP C++. o The __FUNCTION__ identifier is added. __FUNCTION__ is a predefined pointer to char defined by the compiler, which points to the name of the function as it appears in the source program. __FUNCTION__ is same as __func__ of C99. o Previously, the propagation of a C++ exception out of a thread's start routine did not result in cxxl$terminate() being called. A solution for the problem is available on OpenVMS I64 Version V8.2-1 and higher. For V8.2-1, it requires pthreads library patch VMS821I_PTHREAD-V0300. For V8.3, it requires pthreads library patch VMS83I_PTHREAD-V0100. 40 o A problem has been corrected in the implicit include processing. The implicit inclusion will no longer select files such as ".C" or ".CXX" (where these files have no file name portion). o In the /STANDARD=STRICT mode of compilation, the compiler used to issue a diagnostic with the severity of error for NULL reference expression within a sizeof expression. The severity of the diagnostic is now an informational. o The /TEMPLATE_DEFINE qualifier now requires an option. o #pragma module module-name [module-ident | "module- ident"] If the module-name is too long: o A warning is generated if /NAMES=TRUNCATED is specified. o There is no warning if /NAMES=SHORTEN is specified. A shortened external name incorporates all the characters in the original name. If two external names differ by as little as one character, their shortened external names will be different. If the optional module-ident or "module-ident" is too long, a warning is generated. The default module-name is the filename of the first source file. The default module-ident is "V1.0" They are treated as if they were specified by a #pragma module directive. If the module-name is longer than 31 characters: o and /NAMES=TRUNCATE is specified, truncate to 31 characters, or less if the 31st character is within a Universal Character Name. o and /NAMES=SHORTENED is specified, shorten the module-name to 31 characters using the same special encoding as other external names. Lowercase characters in the module-name are converted to upper case only if /NAMES=UPPERCASE is specified. 41 A module-ident that is longer than 31 characters is treated as if /NAMES=(TRUNCATED,AS_IS) were applied, truncating it to 31 characters, or less if the 31st character is within a Universal Character Name. The default module-name comes from the source file name which always appears in the listing header. The module- name (and ident) appear in the listing header only if they come from a #pragma module directive or differ from the default. o To use the LIB$INITIALIZE feature explicitly in either C or C++, a compilation should contain a reference to a parameterless void function named LIB$INITIALIZE, and provide a statically-initialized list of 32-bit pointers to the functions to be called in a psect named LIB$INITIALIZE with appropriate attributes. The following sample source code shows how this can be done. For simplicity in using both languages, this example gives the initialization functions extern "C" linkage. /* Example to set up LIB$INITIALIZE usage by creating a reference ** to the LIB$INITIALIZE function, and an initialized list of ** functions to be called in the LIB$INITIALIZE psect. */ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif /* Declarations for initialization functions. */ extern void some_init_function(void); extern void some_other_init_function(void); /* etc, e.g. other declarations might come from header files */ /* Use 32-bit pointers */ #if __INITIAL_POINTER_SIZE #pragma pointer_size save #pragma pointer_size 32 #endif /* Create a reference to the LIB$INITIALIZE function. */ extern void LIB$INITIALIZE(void); extern void (*unused_global_variable_1)(void) = LIB$INITIALIZE; 42 /* Create an array of pointers to the init functions in the special ** LIB$INITIALIZE section. */ #pragma extern_model save #pragma extern_model strict_refdef "LIB$INITIALIZE" gbl,noexe,nowrt,noshr,long extern void (* const unused_global_variable_2[])() = { some_init_function , some_other_init_function /* etc, other functions to be called by LIB$INITIALIZE() */ }; #pragma extern_model restore #if __INITIAL_POINTER_SIZE #pragma pointer_size restore #endif #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif /* End of example to set up LIB$INITIALIZE */ /* Begin executable test of LIB$INITIALIZE setup. */ #ifdef __cplusplus extern "C" { #endif extern int printf(const char *, ...); extern void some_init_function(void) { printf("In some_init_function.\n"); } extern void some_other_init_function(void) { printf("In some_other_init_function.\n"); } #ifdef __cplusplus } #endif void main(void) { printf("In main.\n"); } 43 /* Compile with either C or C++ on Alpha or I64, link and run. ** The output is: ** In some_init_function. ** In some_other_init_function. ** In main. */ 6.5 Known Problems and Restrictions o On I64 systems, the #pragma inline or #pragma noinline directives are not supported. o On I64 systems, the #pragma function and #pragma intrinsic directives are ignored. o On I64 systems, the intrinsic bit-counting functions _ leadz(), _trailz(), _popcnt(), and _poppar() declared at the end of are treated as intrinsic whether or not the header is included. Since these function names begin with an underscore followed by a lowercase letter, under the language standards they are reserved to the implementation for use as identifiers with external linkage. So programs that declare their own functions with any of these names are not standard- conforming. However, the Alpha C++ compiler and the C compiler for both Alpha and I64 support user-written functions with these names as long as is not included; or if it is included and followed by #pragma function directives for these names. The I64 C++ compiler will accept user-defined functions with these names, but calls to them will generally be treated as having the intrinsic behavior, which may produce unpredictable results if the user declaration does not match the intrinsic declaration. o ANAL/OBJ on OpenVMS 8.2-1 and earlier will issue an error message about an unknown section type that is now generated by this version of the compiler: %ANALYZE-E-ELF_UNKNWNSEC, Unrecognized Elf Section Type 60000007 Please ignore this message. This section is ignored by current versions of the linker and ANAL/IMAGE and causes no harm. 44 o Debugging with optimized code is not supported. 7 Release Notes for the V7.2 C++ Standard Library This section describes enhancements, changes, restrictions and problems corrected for the V7.2 C++ Standard Library. o While applications using the C++ library iostreams can be compiled with the _LARGEFILE macro defined, the C++ library iostreams do not support seeking to 64-bit file offsets. For more information on _LARGEFILE macro see the HP C Run-Time Library Reference Manual for OpenVMS Systems. o The C++ Standard Library headers have been modified to allow include-once compiler optimization. This reduces compilation time and the size of the listing file. o The std::numeric_limits.round_error() function has been corrected to return a value corresponding to the dynamic rounding mode in effect for the program. In particular, to determine the current dynamic rounding mode, the std::numeric_limits.round_error() function now calls C Run-Time Library function read_rnd(). o To comply with 21.2 - String classes [lib.string.classes] in the C++ standard, declarations of the std::getline() function operating on basic_istream have been moved from to . Accordingly, the definition of the std::getline() function operating on basic_ istream and accepting the delim parameter has been moved from to . This change is visible only when using the standard iostreams. o A problem has been corrected with the assignment operator of the tree container not storing the comparison object of the container being copied into the target container. The tree container is the underlying container for the map and set STL containers. Because of this problem, after assigning one STL container object to another, the target container would continue to use the comparison object it was using before the assignment. It violates section 23.1.2 - Associative containers 45 [lib.associative.reqmts] of the C++ standard which states: "When an associative container is constructed by passing a comparison object the container shall not store a pointer or reference to the passed object, even if that object is passed by reference. When an associative container is copied, either through a copy constructor or an assignment operator, the target container shall then use the comparison object from the container being copied, as if that comparison object had been passed to the target container in its constructor." o The C++ Standard Library header was modified to expose std::vector overloads of relational op- erators only when compiling with the __DECFIXCXXL1941 macro defined. These overloads make it impossible to use relational operators on vector::iterator types; see the code example below. That the current C++ standard lists these overloads (section 23.2.5 - Class vector [lib.vector.bool]) is considered to be a defect in the standard. Some other implementations of STL do not provide these overloads. With std::vector overloads of all the relational operators removed, the following program compiles. Before the change, it would not compile. #include #include class D : public std::reverse_iterator::iterator> { }; 46 int main(void) { D x, y; if ( std::operator== ::iterator>(x,y) ) return 0; if ( std::operator!= ::iterator>(x,y) ) return 0; if ( std::operator< ::iterator>(x,y) ) return 0; if ( std::operator<= ::iterator>(x,y) ) return 0; if ( std::operator> ::iterator>(x,y) ) return 0; if ( std::operator>= ::iterator>(x,y) ) return 0; return 1; } o Specifying a C++ headers library and a C headers library using "+" and the /LIB qualifier on the cxx command line, as in the following example, can cause the compiler to fetch a C header file from the C headers library instead of a template definition file from the C++ headers library: cxx x.cxx+SYS$LIBRARY:CXXL$ANSI_DEF.TLB/LIB+SYS$LIBRARY:DECC$RTLDEF.TLB/LIB This can happen if a C header file has the same filename as the C++ template definition file; for example, the string.h header file in the C headers library and string.cc template definition file in the C++ headers library. 8 Release Notes for the V7.1 C++ Compiler This section describes the new features, differences, and restrictions of the C++ V7.1 compiler for I64 systems over the C++ V6.5 compiler for Alpha systems. See Section 9 for the release notes for the standard library, language run-time support library, and class library. 47 This release of the compiler uses a new technology base that differs substantially from both HP C++ for OpenVMS Alpha and HP C for OpenVMS I64. Although a great deal of work has been done to make it highly compatible with HP C++ for OpenVMS Alpha, there are a number of differences that you will likely notice. Some of these differences are temporary, some are changes that will be reflected in the next version of the compiler for Alpha systems, and some are permanent. Among the permanent differences are: o Resource requirements Programs will usually use more memory both at compile time and at run time. See Section 8.3.1. o Floating-point behaviors The default is /FLOAT=IEEE/IEEE_MODE=DENORM_RESULTS. Consistent use of qualifiers across compilations is required. See Section 8.3.5. o Simplified instantiation without repository. See Section 8.3.9. o No inline assembly language. See Section 8.3.6. o Removal of the CFRONT dialect (which will also be removed in the next release of the C++ Alpha compiler). o String literal type change. For standards-compliance and link compatiblity between compiler dialects, ordinary string literals now have the type "array of const char" in all compiler dialects on I64 systems and on Alpha systems when compiling in /MODEL=ANSI mode. When compiling in /MODEL=ARM mode on Alpha systems, string literals are of type "array of char" in all compiler dialects. 8.1 Problems Fixed in V7.1 A problem has been corrected when using the common_block extern_model. A temporary global symbol is no longer emitted when generating the data. 48 8.2 New Features in V7.1 The following new features and changes have been made since C++ Version 6.5 for OpenVMS Alpha systems. 8.2.1 cname Header Support The C++ compiler implements section 17.4.1.2 - Headers [lib.headers] "C++ Headers for C Library Facilities" of the C++ Standard. See also Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language, 3rd Edition sections 9.2.2 and 16.1.2. The implementation consists of 18 headers defined in the C++ Standard: As required by the C++ standard, the headers define C names in the std namespace. In /NOPURE_CNAME mode, the names are also inserted into the global namespace. See the description of the /[NO]PURE_CNAME compiler qualifier. The headers are located in the same TLB library that contains the C++ standard and class library headers: SYS$SHARE:CXXL$ANSI_DEF.TLB. 8.2.2 __HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES Predefined in Strict ANSI Mode When compiling in /STANDARD=STRICT_ANSI mode, the compiler predefines the __HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES macro, causing the C headers to expose only those symbols that are defined by the ANSI C Standard 89. While this is a change in behavior between C++ V6.5 for OpenVMS Alpha systems and C++ for I64 Systems, the new behavior is consistent with the behavior of the C compiler in /STANDARD=ANSI89 mode. As a result of this change, the following program would not compile on an I64 system in /STANDARD=STRICT_ANSI mode (note that fdopen is not part of the ANSI C Standard 89). 49 #include void foo() { fdopen(0,0); } 8.2.3 /[NO]FIRST_INCLUDE Qualifier Added The /[NO]FIRST_INCLUDE qualifier is added. It has the following format: /[NO]FIRST_INCLUDE=(file[, . . . ]) This qualifier includes the specified files before any source files. It corresponds to the Tru64 UNIX -FI switch. When /FIRST_INCLUDE=file is specified, file is included in the source as if the line before the first line of the source was: #include "file" If more than one file is specified, the files are included in their order of appearance on the command line. This qualifier is useful if you have command lines to pass to the C compiler that are exceeding the DCL command- line length limit. Using the /FIRST_INCLUDE qualifier can help solve this problem by replacing lengthy /DEFINE and /WARNINGS qualifiers with #define and #pragma message preprocessor directives placed in a /FIRST_INCLUDE file. The default is /NOFIRST_INCLUDE. 8.2.4 #pragma include_directory Added The effect of each #pragma include_directory is as if its string argument (including the quotes) were appended to the list of places to search that is given its initial value by the /INCLUDE_DIRECTORY qualifier, except that an empty string is not permitted in the pragma form. The #pragma include_directory directive has the following format: #pragma include_directory 50 This pragma is intended to ease DCL command-line length limitations when porting applications from POSIX-like environments built with makefiles containing long lists of -I options that specify directories to search for headers. Just as long lists of macro definitions specified by the /DEFINE qualifier can be converted to #define directives in a source file, long lists of places to search specified by the /INCLUDE_DIRECTORY qualifier can be converted to #pragma include_directory directives in a source file. Note that the places to search, as described in the help text for the /INCLUDE_DIRECTORY qualifier, include the use of POSIX-style pathnames, for example "/usr/base". This form can be very useful when compiling code that contains POSIX-style relative pathnames in #include directives. For example, #include can be combined with a place to search such as "/usr/base" to form "/usr/base/subdir/foo.h", which will be translated to the filespec "USR:[BASE.SUBDIR]FOO.H" This pragma can appear only in the main source file or in the first file specified on the /FIRST_INCLUDE qualifier. Also, it must appear before any #include directives. 8.2.5 Messages There have been some changes in the /WARNINGS qualifier. These include bug fixes and improved compatibility with the C compiler. Some changes that might affect user compilations are: o The /WARNINGS=ENABLE=ALL qualifier now enables all compiler messages including informational-level messages. o The /WARNINGS=INFORMATIONALS qualifier continues to enable most informationals, but we recommend that /WARNINGS=ENABLE=ALL be used instead o Using /WARNINGS=INFORMATIONALS= no longer enables all other informational messages. The move from Alpha systems to I64 systems will cause some minor differences in certain compiler diagnostics that are signaled from the code generator. As a result, diagnostics for unreachable code and fetches of uninitialized variables might be different on the two platforms. In 51 addition to a change in message text, some conditions detected on one platform might not be detected on the other. 8.2.6 New Front End A new C++ front end provides improved conformance to the C++ International Standard. 8.3 I64 Differences This section describes differences between the C++ compiler on I64 systems and Alpha systems. 8.3.1 Quotas The C++ compiler for I64 systems is built from a different code base than the C++ compiler for Alpha systems, and that code base is larger than the code base for Alpha. Also, I64 images tend to be somewhat larger than Alpha images in general. Image size mostly affects working-set size and the amount of pagefile quota needed to execute an image without exhausting virtual memory. If you find that programs that compile and run successfully on Alpha run out of memory on I64 systems (either during compilation or when run), you probably need to increase your pagefile quota. There are no specific guidelines at this time. You might start by doubling the quota that was sufficient on Alpha, and then use a "binary-search" approach to arrive at a better quota value for I64 systems (doubling again, or halving the increment, until your biggest programs and compilations have just enough memory, and then adding an appropriate safety margin). 8.3.2 Dialect Changes The following dialect changes have been made: o Support for /STANDARD=CFRONT has been retired. o Some of the compiler dialects (options to the /STANDARD qualifier) have been updated to reflect the most recent behaviors of the compilers that the dialect is attempting to match. Other changes involve the removal of less significant or undesirable compatibility features. If a dialect has changed in a way that impacts you significantly, report it as described in Section 12. 52 8.3.3 ABI/Object Model changes The object model and the name mangling scheme used by the C++ compiler on I64 systems are different from those used on Alpha systems (different from both /MODEL=ARM and /MODEL=ANSI). The I64 compiler uses the interface described by the I64 Application Binary Interface (ABI). See http://www.codesourcery.com/cxx-abi/abi.html for a draft description of the ABI specification. The compiler has some additional encoding rules that are applied to symbol names after the ABI name mangling is determined. All symbols with C++ linkage have CRC encodings added to the name, are uppercased, and shorten to 31 characters if necessary. Since the CRC is computed before the name is uppercased, the symbol name is case sensitive even though the final name is uppercase. /names=as_is and /names=upper are not applicable to these symbols. All symbols without C++ linkage will have CRC encod- ings added if they are longer then 31 characters and /names=shorten is specified. Global variables with C++ linkage are treated as if they have non-C++ linkage for compatibility with C and older compilers. 8.3.4 Command-Line Qualifiers This section describes qualifier differences for HP C++ on I64 systems. Qualifiers/Features Not Supported on I64 Systems The following command-line qualifiers and features are not supported on C++ for I64 systems, and are diagnosed by default because ignoring them is likely to alter program behavior: o Comma lists are not supported. Their use provokes a fatal error. o The /INSTRUCTION_SET=[NO]FLOATING_POINT qualifier is not available on I64 systems. o /L_DOUBLE_SIZE=64 is not available on I64 systems. If it is specified, a warning message is issued, and /L_ DOUBLE_SIZE=128 is used. 53 o /POINTER_SIZE=(LONG,64) is ignored. Changed/Ignored Qualifiers A number of other qualifiers not supported on I64 systems are, by default, silently ignored by the compiler. These qualifiers fall into two groups: o Qualifiers that should not alter the behavior of a correct program so, if ignored, should have no visible effect. Qualifiers that enable optimizations typically have this characteristic. o Qualifiers that might affect program behavior but, if ignored, produce no significant change in the vast majority of programs. Examples of qualifiers in this category are /NORTTI (the run-time information is always generated) and /MODEL=ARM (the ANSI model is functionally superior, and binary compatibility with existing object code is not an issue for the OpenVMS I64 platform). Two optional compiler messages can be enabled to diagnose most of these cases: o The QUALNA message diagnoses uses of the first group. o The QUALCHANGE message diagnoses uses of the second group. If you encounter porting problems, compile /WARN=ENABLE=QUALCHANGE to determine if a qualifier change might be affecting your application. If you wish to clean up your build scripts to remove extraneous qualifiers that are not meaningful on I64 systems, you can enable the QUALNA message. A list of these qualifiers follows: o /ARCHITECTURE=option An additional keyword has been added: ITANIUM2. If an Alpha keyword (EV4, EV5, EV56, PCA56, EV6, EV68, EV7) is specified for option, it is ignored. o /ASSUME 54 The following /ASSUME options are ignored on I64 systems and should not cause any behavior changes: NORTTI_CTORVTBLS NOPOINTERS_TO_GLOBALS TRUSTED_SHORT_ALIGNMENT WHOLE_PROGRAM o /CHECK=UNINITIALIZED_VARIABLES This qualifier has no effect in this version of the compiler. o /DISTINGUISH_NESTED_ENUMS This qualifier only modified the behavior of programs compiled with /MODEL=ARM. Since that model is not supported on the I64 platform, this qualifier is meaningless. o /EXCEPTIONS=NOCLEANUP The NOCLEANUP keyword for the /EXCEPTIONS qualifier is ignored. o /EXCEPTIONS=IMPLICIT The IMPLICIT keyword for the /EXCEPTIONS qualifier is ignored. o /FLOAT The default for /FLOAT on OpenVMS I64 systems is IEEE_ FLOAT. See Section 8.3.5 for more information about floating- point behavior on I64 systems. o /IEEE_MODE The default for /IEEE_MODE on I64 systems is DENORM_ RESULTS, which generates infinities, denorms, and NaNs without exceptions. On OpenVMS Alpha systems, the default for /IEEE_MODE when using /FLOAT=IEEE_FLOAT is FAST, which causes a FATAL error for exceptional conditions such as divide- by-zero and overflow. See Section 8.3.5 for more information. o /MACHINE_CODE 55 The /MACHINE_CODE qualifier output will appear in an .S file in the same directory as your listing file. o The /MODEL=ARM qualifier is treated the same as the default /MODEL=ANSI (except for the optional QUALCHANGE diagnostic). o /OPTIMIZE There are several changes to the /OPTIMIZE qualifier: - On I64 systems, for /OPTIMIZE=INLINE, the keywords AUTOMATIC and SPEED do the same thing. Also, the ALL keyword does not necessarily result in every possible call being inlined, as it does on Alpha systems. - The /OPTIMIZE=TUNE qualifier takes a new keyword: ITANIUM2, which is the default at this time. If you specify an Alpha keyword, it is ignored. - The /OPTIMIZE=UNROLL=n qualifier on I64 systems does not have the ability to control the specific number of times a loop is unrolled. The only accepted values are /OPTIMIZE=UNROLL=1 which disables loop unrolling, and /OPTIMIZE=UNROLL=0 which allows the compiler's optimizer to decide how the loop should be unrolled. The default is /OPTIMIZE=UNROLL=0. - /OPTIMIZE=LIMIT_INLINE is ignored. o /PREFIX_LIBRARY_ENTRIES Note that /PREFIX_LIBRARY_ENTRIES=ALL_ENTRIES prefixes all functions defined by the C99 standard including those that may not be supported in the current run- time library. So calling functions introduced in C99 that are not yet implemented in the OpenVMS C RTL will produce unresolved references to symbols prefixed by DECC$ when the program is linked. The compiler now issues a CC-W-NOTINCRTL message when it prefixes a name that is not in the current C RTL. o /TEMPLATE See Section 8.3.9 for information on template instantiation. 56 o /POINTER_SIZE=(SHORT,32) is ignored. Mixed pointer types are not supported at this time. o /SHOW=STATISTICS The /SHOW=STATISTICS qualifier is ignored at this time. o /STANDARD=CFRONT The /STANDARD=CFRONT qualifier is no longer available. If it is specified, the compiler issues a warning message and uses the default dialect, /STANDARD=ANSI. New Qualifiers The following command-line qualifier is new for C++ V7.1 for I64 systems: o /[NO]PURE_CNAME Affects insertion of the names into the global namespace by headers. In /PURE_CNAME mode, the headers insert the names into the std namespace only, as defined by the C++ Standard, and the __PURE_CNAME macro is predefined by the compiler. In /NOPURE_CNAME mode, the headers insert the name into the std namespace and also into the global namespace. The default depends on the standard mode: - In /STANDARD=STRICT_ANSI mode, the default is /PURE_ CNAME. - In all other standard modes, the default is /NOPURE_ CNAME. Inclusion of a header instead of its counterpart (for example, instead of ) results in inserting names defined in the header into both the std namespace and the global namespace. Effectively, this is the same as the inclusion of a header in the /NOPURE_CNAME mode. See Section 8.2.1 for more information. 57 8.3.5 Floating Point This section describes floating-point behavior on I64 systems. IEEE Now the Default On OpenVMS I64 systems, /FLOAT=IEEE_FLOAT is the default floating-point representation. IEEE format data is assumed and IEEE floating-point instructions are used. There is no hardware support for floating-point representations other than IEEE, although you can specify the /FLOAT=D_FLOAT or /FLOAT=G_FLOAT compiler option. These VAX floating-point formats are supported in the I64 compiler by generating run-time code that converts VAX floating-point formats to IEEE format to perform arithmetic operations, and then converts the IEEE result back to the appropriate VAX floating-point format. This imposes additional run-time overhead and some loss of accuracy compared to performing the operations in hardware on Alpha and VAX systems. The software support for the VAX formats is provided to meet an important functional compatibility requirement for certain applications that need to deal with on-disk binary floating-point data. On I64 systems, the default for /IEEE_MODE is DENORM_ RESULTS, which is a change from the default of /IEEE_ MODE=FAST on Alpha systems. This means that by default, floating-point operations may silently generate values that print as Infinity or Nan (the industry-standard behavior), instead of issuing a fatal run-time error as they would when using VAX floating-point format or /IEEE_ MODE=FAST. Also, the smallest-magnitude nonzero value in this mode is much smaller because results are allowed to enter the denormal range instead of being flushed to zero as soon as the value is too small to represent with normalization. The conversion between VAX floating-point formats and IEEE formats on the Intel Itanium architecture is a transparent process that will not impact most applications. All you need to do is recompile your application. Because IEEE floating-point format is the default, unless your build explicitly specifies VAX floating-point format options, a simple rebuild for I64 systems will use the native IEEE 58 formats directly. For the large class of programs that do not directly depend on the VAX formats for correct operation, this is the most desirable way to build for I64 systems. When you compile an OpenVMS application that specifies an option to use VAX floating-point on an I64 system, the compiler automatically generates code for converting floating-point formats. Whenever the application performs a sequence of arithmetic operations, this code does the following: 1. Converts VAX floating-point formats to either IEEE single or IEEE double floating-point formats. 2. Performs arithmetic operations in IEEE floating-point arithmetic. 3. Converts the resulting data from IEEE formats back to VAX formats. Where no arithmetic operations are performed (VAX float fetches followed by stores), no conversion will occur. The code handles such situations as moves. VAX floating-point formats have the same number of bits and precision as their equivalent IEEE floating-point formats. For most applications, the conversion process will be transparent and, therefore, a non-issue. In a few cases, arithmetic calculations might have different results because of the following differences between VAX and IEEE formats: o Values of numbers represented o Rounding rules o Exception behavior These differences might cause problems for applications that do any of the following: o Depend on exception behavior o Measure the limits of floating-point behaviors o Implement algorithms at maximal processor-specific accuracy 59 o Perform low-level emulations of other floating-point processors o Use direct equality comparisons between floating-point values, instead of appropriately ranged comparisons (a practice that is extremely vulnerable to changes in compiler version or compiler options, as well as architecture) You can test an application's behavior with IEEE floating- point values by first compiling it on an OpenVMS Alpha system using /FLOAT=IEEE_FLOAT/IEEE_MODE=DENORM. If that produces acceptable results, then simply build the application on the OpenVMS I64 system using the same qualifier. If you determine that simply recompiling with an /IEEE_ MODE qualifier is not sufficient because your application depends on the binary representation of floating-point values, then first try building for your I64 system by specifying the VAX floating-point option that was in effect for your VAX or Alpha build. This causes the representation seen by your code and on disk to remain unchanged, with some additional runtime cost for the conversions generated by the compiler. If this is not an efficient approach for your application, you can convert VAX floating-point binary data in disk files to IEEE floating-point formats before moving the application to an I64 system. /IEEE_MODE Notes On Alpha systems, the /IEEE_MODE qualifier generally has its greatest effect on the generated code of a compilation. When calls are made between functions compiled with different /IEEE_MODE qualifiers, each function produces the /IEEE_MODE behavior with which it was compiled. On I64 systems, the /IEEE_MODE qualifier primarily affects only the setting of a hardware register at program startup. In general, the /IEEE_MODE behavior for a given function is controlled by the /IEEE_MODE option specified on the compilation that produced the main program: the startup code for the main program sets the hardware 60 register according the command-line qualifiers used to compile the main program. When applied to a compilation that does not contain a main program, the /IEEE_MODE qualifier does have some effect: it might affect the evaluation of floating- point constant expressions, and it is used to set the EXCEPTION_MODE used by the math library for calls from that compilation. But the qualifier has no effect on the exceptional behavior of floating-point calculations generated as inline code for that compilation. Therefore, if floating-point exceptional behavior is important to an application, all of its compilations, including the one containing the main program, should be compiled with the same /IEEE_MODE setting. Even on Alpha systems, the particular setting of /IEEE_ MODE=UNDERFLOW_TO_ZERO has the following characteristic: its primary effect requires the setting of a runtime status register, and so it needs to be specified on the compilation containing the main program in order to be effective in other compilations. More Information For more information on I64 floating-point behavior, see the white paper OpenVMS floating-point arithmetic on the Intel Itanium architecture at http://www.hp.com/products1/evolution/alpha_ retaintrust/download/i64-floating-pt-wp.pdf . 8.3.6 Intrinsics and Builtins The C++ built-in functions available on OpenVMS Alpha systems are also available on I64 systems, with some differences, as described in this section. This section also describes built-in functions that are specific to I64 systems. Builtin Differences on I64 Systems The header file contains comments noting which built-in functions are not available or are not the preferred form for I64 systems. The compiler issues diagnostics where using a different built-in function for I64 systems would be preferable. 61 ________________________Note ________________________ The comments in reflect only what is explicitly present in that header file itself, and in the compiler implementation. You should also consult the content and comments in to determine more accurately what functionality is effectively provided by including . For example, if a program explicitly declares one of the Alpha built-in functions and invokes it without having included , the compiler might issue the BIFNOTAVAIL error message, regardless of whether or not the function is available through a system service. If the compilation does include , and BIFNOTAVAIL is issued, then either there is no support at all for the built-in function or a new version of is needed. _____________________________________________________ Here is a summary of these differences on I64 systems: o There is no support for the asm, fasm, and dasm intrinsics (declared in the header file). o The functionality provided by the special-case treatment of R26 in an Alpha system asm, as in asm("MOV R26,R0"), is provided by a new built-in function for I64 systems: __int64 __RETURN_ADDRESS(void); This built-in function produces the address to which the function containing the built-in call will return (the value of R26 on entry to the function on Alpha systems; the value of B0 on entry to the function on I64 systems). This built-in function cannot be used within a function specified to use nonstandard linkage. o The only PAL function calls implemented as built- in functions within the compiler are the 24 queue- manipulation builtins. The queue manipulation builtins generate calls to new OpenVMS system services SYS$, where is the name of the builtin with the leading underscores removed. 62 Any other OpenVMS PAL calls are supported through macros defined in the header file included in the header file. Typically, the macros in transform an invocation of an Alpha system builtin into a call to a system service that performs the equivalent function on an I64 system. Two notable exceptions are __PAL_GENTRAP and __PAL_BUGCHK, which instead invoke the I64 specific compiler builtin __break2. o There is no support for the various floating-point built-in functions used by the OpenVMS math library (for example, operations with chopped rounding and conversions). o Most built-in functions that take a retry count are not supported. This is necessary because the retry behavior allowed by Alpha load-locked/store-conditional sequences does not exist on I64 systems. There are two exceptions to this: __LOCK_LONG_RETRY and __ACQUIRE_ SEM_LONG_RETRY; in these cases, the retry behavior involves comparisons of data values, not just load- locked/store-conditional. o The __CMP_STORE_LONG and __CMP_STORE_QUAD built-in functions are not supported. Use the new __CMP_SWAP form instead. Built-in Functions Specific to I64 Systems The header file contains a section at the top conditionalized to just __ia64 with the support for built-in functions specific to I64 systems. This includes macro definitions for all of the registers that can be specified to the __getReg, __setReg, __getIndReg, and __setIndReg built-in functions. Parameters that are const-qualified require an argument that is a compile-time constant. The following lists the C++ built-in functions available on OpenVMS I64 systems. 63 /* Intel compatible */ unsigned __int64 __getReg(const int __whichReg); void __setReg(const int __whichReg, unsigned __int64 __value); unsigned __int64 __getIndReg(const int __whichIndReg, __int64 __index); void __setIndReg(const int __whichIndReg, __int64 __index, unsigned __int64 __value); void __break(const int __break_arg); /* Native I64 arg */ void __dsrlz(void); void __fc(__int64 __address); void __fwb(void); void __invalat(void); void __invala(void); /* alternate spelling of __invalat */ void __isrlz(void); void __itcd(__int64 __address); void __itci(__int64 __address); void __itrd(__int64 __whichTransReg, __int64 __address); void __itri(__int64 __whichTransReg, __int64 __address); void __ptce(__int64 __address); void __ptcl(__int64 __address, __int64 __pagesz); void __ptcg(__int64 __address, __int64 __pagesz); void __ptcga(__int64 __address, __int64 __pagesz); void __ptri(__int64 __address, __int64 __pagesz); void __ptrd(__int64 __address, __int64 __pagesz); void __rsm(const int __mask); void __rum(const int __mask); void __ssm(const int __mask); void __sum(const int __mask); void __synci(void); __int64 /*address*/ __thash(__int64 __address); __int64 /*address*/ __ttag(__int64 __address); /* Intel _Interlocked intrinsics */ unsigned __int64 _InterlockedCompareExchange_acq( unsigned int *__Destination, unsigned __int64 __Newval, unsigned __int64 __Comparand); 64 unsigned __int64 _InterlockedCompareExchange64_acq( unsigned __int64 *__Destination, unsigned __int64 __Newval, unsigned __int64 __Comparand); unsigned __int64 _InterlockedCompareExchange_rel( unsigned int *__Destination, unsigned __int64 __Newval, unsigned __int64 __Comparand); unsigned __int64 _InterlockedCompareExchange64_rel( unsigned __int64 *__Destination, unsigned __int64 __Newval, unsigned __int64 __Comparand); /* GEM-added builtins */ void __break2(__Integer_Constant __break_code, unsigned __int64 __r17_value); void __flushrs(void); void __loadrs(void); int __prober(__int64 __address, unsigned int __mode); int __probew(__int64 __address, unsigned int __mode); unsigned int __tak(__int64 __address); __int64 __tpa(__int64 __address); /* _Interlocked* builtins return the old value and have the ** newval and comparand arguments in a different order than ** __CMP_SWAP* builtins that return the status (1 or 0). ** Forms without trailing _ACQ or _REL are equivalent to ** the _ACQ form. On Alpha, _ACQ generates MB after the swap, ** _REL generates MB before the swap. */ int __CMP_SWAP_LONG(volatile void *__addr, int __comparand, int __newval); int __CMP_SWAP_QUAD(volatile void *__addr, __int64 __comparand, __int64 __newval); int __CMP_SWAP_LONG_ACQ(volatile void *__addr, int __comparand, int __newval); 65 int __CMP_SWAP_QUAD_ACQ(volatile void *__addr, __int64 __comparand, __int64 __newval); int __CMP_SWAP_LONG_REL(volatile void *__addr, int __comparand, int __newval); int __CMP_SWAP_QUAD_REL(volatile void *__addr, __int64 __comparand, __int64 __newval); /* ** Produce the value of R26 (Alpha) or B0 (I64) on entry to the ** function containing a call to this builtin. Cannot be invoked ** from a function with nonstandard linkage. */ __int64 __RETURN_ADDRESS(void); 8.3.7 memcpy C Run-Time Library Function Programs must not use memcpy with overlapping arguments. HP C++ for OpenVMS I64 optimizes the use of standard C library functions memcpy and memmove somewhat differently than HP C for OpenVMS I64 and the HP C and C++ compilers for OpenVMS Alpha. Because of this, the use of memcpy with arguments that overlap in memory can produce results that differ from the other compilers. Note that the behavior of memcpy is formally undefined if its arguments overlap; only memmove should be used in this case. However, the other compilers generally treat memcpy in a way that handles overlapping arguments in the same way as memmove, while HP C++ for OpenVMS I64 does not. So when using memcpy, take care that the arguments do not refer to memory that might overlap; if overlap is a possibility, you must use memmove instead of memcpy. 66 8.3.8 ELF ELF Used on I64 systems. On OpenVMS Alpha systems, the C++ compiler uses a proprietary object format specific to OpenVMS. On OpenVMS I64 systems, the compiler generates ELF objects. ELF is an industry standard object format used on many UNIX platforms, including Linux. This change should be transparent to most users; it is primarily of interest to compiler and tools developers. The greatest benefit of this change is that it should make it easier to create development tools that work on OpenVMS and other platforms. Extensions to ELF have been used as needed to provide functionality unique to OpenVMS. See the Porting Applications from HP OpenVMS Alpha to HP OpenVMS Industry Standard 64 for Integrity Servers for more information on ELF. COMDATS/Group Sections One feature that ELF provides that is new to OpenVMS is the COMDAT section group-a group of sections in an object file that can be duplicated in one or more other object files. The linker is expected to keep one group and ignore all others. The benefit of this feature is that it permits compilers to generate definitions for symbols for things used in multiple objects without having to worry about creating a single definition in one place. The most notable uses for this feature are templates and inline functions. New ELF Type for Weak Symbols A new Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) type was generated to distinguish between the two types of weak symbol definitions. For modules with ABI versions equal to 2 (the most common version used by compilers): o Type STB_WEAK represents the UNIX-style weak symbol (formerly, the OpenVMS-style weak symbol definition for ABI Version 1 ELF format). 67 o Type STB_VMS_WEAK represents the OpenVMS-style of weak symbol definition. The Librarian supports both the ELF ABI versions 1 and 2 of the object and image file formats within the same library. 8.3.9 Templates This section describes template instantiation for I64 systems. Implemented using ELF COMDATS/Groups Sections The Alpha C++ compiler had numerous models for instantiat- ing templates. Each attempted to solve the issue of how to generate one and only one copy of each template. The use of ELF on OpenVMS I64 systems provided the compiler with the additional option of using COMDAT section groups. Since this technique is superior to all the models supported on Alpha, this is the only model supported on I64 systems. In this model, templates are instantiated in a COMDAT section group inside every object module that uses them. This is very similar to the /TEMPLATE=LOCAL on Alpha systems, except that when the objects are linked together, the linker removes the duplicate copies. The primary advantage of this technique over /TEMPLATE=LOCAL and /TEMPLATE=IMPLICIT_LOCAL is the reduction in image size. A secondary advantage is the elimination of distinct data for each template. For example, if a template maintained a list of elements it created, each module would have a separate copy of the list. This behavior does not conform to the standard. If you are currently using /TEMPLATE=LOCAL or /TEMPLATE=IMPLICIT_LOCAL, you will likely experience no difficulty from this change. Not in Repository The most visible difference that results from this new instantiation model occurs in models that instantiate templates into the repository (/TEMPLATE=AUTOMATIC|ALL_ REPOSITORY|USED_REPOSITORY). 68 With the new model, no repository is needed. Build procedures that use CXXLINK will work transparently. Builds that attempt to manipulate objects in the repository will fail and will need to be changed. In most cases, the reason for manipulating the repository directly has been eliminated with the new template instantiation model. Restriction For OpenVMS I64 and Alpha systems, the /TEMPLATE_ DEFINE=ALL qualifier is not guaranteed to work with the Standard Library. Use automatic instantiation or specify /TEMPLATE_DEFINE=USED instead. 8.3.10 Exceptions and Condition Handlers The command-line option /EXCEPTIONS=NOCLEANUP is not implemented. As a result, you might see destructors being called during cleanup in code previously compiled with this option. Exception specifications are not implemented. Exception specifications on routine declarations and definitions are accepted syntactically, but their run-time behavior has not yet been implemented. Stack unwinding According to the C++ Standard, an implementation may or may not unwind the stack before calling terminate when no matching handler is found for a thrown exception. On I64 systems, the implementation unwinds the stack. On Alpha systems, it does not. Consider the following program: #include #include #include class C { public: C() { std::printf("Created\n"); } ~C() { std::printf("Destroyed\n"); } }; 69 void announce1() { std::printf("In terminate\n"); exit(0); } int main() { C c; std::set_terminate(announce1); throw 5; return 0; } For the above program, the output on OpenVMS Alpha and I64 systems is: Alpha: I64: Created Created In terminate Destroyed In terminate Exceptions Not Caught The compiler assumes that the only two ways an exception can be propagated into a function are: o From a throw expression, or o From a routine call that itself can throw an exception. As a result of this assumption, some exceptions such as those thrown from a signal handler will not be caught. 8.3.11 Overriding new and delete Full support for allowing a user to override operators new and delete is not yet completed. As a result, when you override new and delete, you might see multiply- defined symbols when linking. This will be fixed in a future release. 8.4 I64 Known Issues Version 7.1 of the C++ compiler has the following known issues: 70 Qualifiers By default the compiler's optimizer will not unroll loops. If you wish to turn the optimization on, you must compile /OPTIMIZE=UNROLL=N Destruction of Initialized Aggregate Members If an aggregate class/struct (such as struct B in the example below) contains a member with a destructor, and an object of that class is initialized with a brace- enclosed initializer list, and initialization of some member terminates by throwing an exception (thereby interrupting the initialization of the B object), members already completely initialized at that point will not be destructed. However, if the B object is completely initialized, each of its members will be destructed correctly. // Aggregate initialization, cleanup on throw extern "C" int printf(const char *, ...); int count; int stopon; struct A { int n; A(int i) : n(i) { if (n == stopon) { printf("throwing...\n"); throw "help"; } printf("A::A(%d)\n", n); count++; } ~A() { printf("A::~A(%d)\n", n); count--; } }; struct B { A a; const A &r; const A &r2; A aa; ~B() { printf("B::~B()\n"); } }; 71 main () { for (stopon = 1; stopon <= 5; stopon++) { try { B b = {1, A(2), A(3), 4}; throw 5; } catch (...) { printf("catch\n"); printf("----------\n"); } } return !(count == 0); } Debugger o Optimized debugging is not supported in HP C++ V7.1 for OpenVMS I64 systems. o Examining floating point values when compiling /FLOAT=(D_FLOAT,G_FLOAT) On OpenVMS I64 systems, the default floating point type is IEEE. If you compile your program with any of these qualifiers: /G_FLOAT, /FLOAT=(D_FLOAT) or /FLOAT=(G_FLOAT) your floating point numbers will be represented internally as integers. Therefore to examine them as floating point values, you must specify the appropriate data type (EXAMINE/D_FLOAT, EXAMINE/G_FLOAT or EXAMINE/F_FLOAT) when using the EXAMINE command in the OpenVMS I64 debugger. o Inherited Data Members You cannot specify multiple base names. For exam- ple, in the program below, to examine member f_ member, we can say: "examine j_object.f_member" or "examine j_object.I::f_member" but we cannot say "j_ object.I::G::f_member". struct A { int a_member; }; struct B : A { int b_member; }; struct C { int c_member; }; struct D : B, C { int d_member; }; struct E : D { int e_member; }; 72 struct F { int f_member; }; struct G : F { int g_member; }; struct H : E, G { int h_member; }; struct I : H { int i_member; }; struct J : I { int j_member; }; static J j_object; main(){ j_object.j_member = 1; } DBG> exam j_object.B::A::a_member %DEBUG-W-NOFIELD, 'B::A::a_member' is not a field in this record DBG> deposit j_object.I::a_member = 13 o Breakpoints on opening and closing braces of a function The OpenVMS I64 debugger may give unexpected results when examining values at the final brace (}) of a routine. On OpenVMS I64 systems, a workaround to set a break on the last source line of a routine. This is because destructors for the routine may run after the final source line and before the final (}). o Overloaded Functions If you attempt to set a break on an overloaded function without providing the argument list, debug may display the %DEBUG-E-NOSYMBOL message instead of displaying the overload list. To see the list of overloaded functions use the sho symbol command. Currently there is a problem with setting breakpoints on an operator. By using the %name feature of debug, it should be possible to set a breakpoint on an a user defined operator, just as one can set a breakpoint on a user defined destructor. However, this feature is not working at the present time. Please workaround this problem by setting a breakpoint on the appropriate line number. 73 // using %name you can set a break on a destructor DBG> set break stack::%name'~stack' // however setting a break on an operator is not working yet DBG> set break stack::%name'operator++'() %DEBUG-I-NOTUNQOVR, symbol 'stack::operator++' is overloaded overloaded name stack::operator++ instance stack::operator++(int) instance stack::operator++() %DEBUG-E-REENTER, reenter the command using a more precise pathname o Pointer to member On OpenVMS I64 systems, the compiler is not yet emitting full debug information for pointers to members. o Limited support for namespaces On OpenVMS I64 systems, the compiler is not yet emitting full debug information for namespaces. o Unused type and unused labels On OpenVMS I64 systems, the /DEBUG qualifier means /DEBUG=(TRACEBACK,BRIEF), which causes the compiler to omit debug information for unused labels and unused types, even when /NOOPTIMIZE is specified. This feature results in much smaller object files. If unused labels and unused types are desired, please specify the SYMBOLS keyword explicitly (/DEBUG=(SYMBOLS). o Source line numbers and listing line numbers on OpenVMS Alpha systems, the debugger will display listing line numbers. However, the HP C++ V7.1 compiler on OpenVMS I64 systems does not yet support debugging with listing line numbers. Instead you will see source line numbers when in the debugger. For Example: in the following program which contains two include files, on OpenVMS Alpha the debugger displays the same listing line numbers as in the listing file. However on OpenVMS I64, the generic DWARF 3 filename and line number system is used in the debugger, while a listing file will contain standard VMS style listing line numbers. 74 #include void t2(); int main() { /* comment lines within executable code visible*/ printf("in main\n"); t2(); } /* last line in routine main */ /* This comment will not be visible */ #include "t2.c" Notice that when we are in the debugger, we see source line numbers, and the location information on a show calls displays module name, source line number. DBG> go break at routine GEM_BUGS10682\main 4: int main() { %DEBUG-I-DYNLNGSET, setting language C++ DBG> type 1:20 module GEM_BUGS10682 1: #include 2: 3: void t2(); 4: int main() { 5: /* comment lines within executable code visible*/ 6: printf("in main\n"); 7: t2(); 8: } /* last line in routine main */ 9: extern "C" {int printf(const char *,...);} 10: void t2() { 11: printf("in t2\n"); 12: } /* last line in routine t2 */ DBG> sho calls module name routine name line rel PC abs PC *GEM_BUGS10682 main 4 0000000000000000 0000000000010000 *GEM_BUGS10682 MAIN 00000000000000F0 0000000000010170 FFFFFFFF80B1CC20 FFFFFFFF80B1CC20 DBG> set break t2 DBG> go in main break at routine GEM_BUGS10682\t2 10: void t2() { DBG> sho calls 75 module name routine name line rel PC abs PC *GEM_BUGS10682 t2 10 0000000000000000 00000000000101C0 *GEM_BUGS10682 main 7 0000000000000050 0000000000010050 *GEM_BUGS10682 MAIN 00000000000000F0 0000000000010170 Below you see the listing file and all of the source lines from the main source file are shown. (The contents of the include would be visible too if /LIS/SHOW=INCLUDE were specified.) 1 #include 1552 1553 void t2(); 1554 int main() { 1555 /* comment lines within executable code visible*/ 1556 printf("in main\n"); 1557 t2(); 1558 } /* last line in routine main */ 1559 /* This comment will not be visible */ 1560 1561 #include "t2.c" 1568 1569 o Breakpoints on for loops On OpenVMS Alpha systems, if you set a breakpoint on a for loop that resides on a single source line, the debugger triggers only once; the for loop is considered a single statement. On OpenVMS I64 systems, the same situation causes the debugger to trigger on each iteration of the for loop. Consider the following for statements: for (i=0; i<10; i++) y_v10_int[i] = x_v10_int[i]; for (i=0; i<10; i++) {y_v10_int[i] = x_v10_int[i];} for (i=0; i<10; i++) { y_v10_int[i] = x_v10_int[i]; } 76 On OpenVMS Alpha systems, the debugger treats the first two example loops above as single statements, even with delimiting braces. But if the loop is spread over several source lines, as in the third example, the OpenVMS Alpha debugger treats it as a loop. On OpenVMS I64 systems, all three of the above for statements are treated as loops. 9 Release Notes for the V7.1 C++ Libraries For I64 systems, the C++ standard library has been upgraded and organized as a shareable image. All applicable fixes and enhancements done in the C++ standard library for Alpha systems, have been applied to the C++ standard library for I64 systems. For I64 systems, the C++ class library is based on the same code as the C++ class library on Alpha systems. The major change in the C++ class library for I64 systems is the removal of the tasks and complex packages. 9.1 Library Reorganization The standard library, language run-time support library, and class library have been reorganized for I64 systems. 9.1.1 Standard Library and Language Run-Time Support Library On Alpha systems, the C++ standard library and language run-time support library is delivered in an object library, LIBCXXSTD.OLB, shipped with the compiler kit. On I64 systems, the C++ standard library and language run-time support library are delivered as separate system shareable images shipped with the base operating system. The names of the images are: CXXL$RWRTL.EXE and CXXL$LANGRTL.EXE, respectively. The images reside in the SYS$LIBRARY directory and are installed at system startup. The LIBCXXSTD.OLB object library does not exist on I64 systems. On Alpha systems, the default C++ standard library LIBCXXSTD[_MA].OLB is a preinstantiation library. It contains instantiations of commonly used templates on commonly uses types like std::basic_string, std::basic_iostream, and so on. When you compile 77 with /NOIMPLICIT_INCLUDE, standard library symbols defined in template definition files can be resolved from the preinstantiation library. On I64 systems, there is no preinstantiation library. As a result, compiling with /NOIMPLICIT_INCLUDE can result in undefined symbols for standard library symbols that could have been resolved on Alpha systems from the preinstantiation library. 9.1.2 Class Library On Alpha systems, there are three class library shareable images: CXXL$011_SHR.EXE, CXXL$011_SHRTASK.EXE, and CXXL$011_TASK.EXE. On I64 systems, the C++ class library continues to ship as a system shareable image. Because the tasks and complex packages have been removed, there is only one class library image: CXXL$011_SHR.EXE. 9.2 Language Run-Time Support Library The following language run-time support library change has been made: o The language run-time support library no longer validates if a negative value has been specified in a call to operator new. Instead, the value is treated as an unsigned value, and an attempt is made to dynamically allocate the specified memory. 9.3 Class Library The following class library changes have been made: o The tasks and complex packages have been removed. The recommended replacements are the pthreads routines and complex template class, respectively, from the C++ standard library. o In the String class, the char*() operator, which converts String to a pointer to char, has been removed. The String class has a const char*() operator, which can be used instead of the removed one. 78 9.4 Standard Library This section describes changes to the C++ standard library. 9.4.1 Changes There are two major changes in the C++ standard library for I64 systems as compared with the standard library for Alpha systems: o The C++ standard library has been upgraded from Version 2.0 of the Rogue Wave C++ Standard Library to Version 3.0. o The C++ standard library is delivered with the operating system as the installed system shareable image SYS$SHARE:CXXL$RWRTL.EXE, and also in STARLET.OLB in the object form for linking /NOSYSSHARE. On I64 systems, there is no LIBCXXSTD.OLB, which is the object library where the C++ standard library for OpenVMS Alpha resides. Additional standard library changes, known issues, and platform differences are noted in the following sections. 9.4.2 Library Headers While from the customers' perspective the change in the library distribution model is supposed to be transparent (except that application images will be much smaller on I64 systems), users on I64 systems may find that the new C++ Standard Library is much less forgiving in terms of including all necessary library headers than the old Standard Library. For example, the following program compiles cleanly on OpenVMS Alpha systems despite the fact that it does not include the header necessary for the std::cout object: #ifndef __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #define __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #endif #include using namespace std; 79 main() { cout << "hello, world"; } However, on OpenVMS I64 systems, compilation fails with the following error: %CXX-E-UNDECLARED, identifier "cout" is undefined It is nearly impossible to describe all combinations of library constructs and header files that would compile cleanly on Alpha systems and yet fail to compile on I64 systems because a library header required by the C++ standard for a particular construct has not been included. If a program that used to compile cleanly on an Alpha system fails to compile on an I64 system, it is always a good idea to check that all necessary library headers are included. 9.4.3 Internal Library Headers and Macros A program that includes internal RW stdlib V2.0 library headers, like or , or that uses internal library macros _RW_*, will have to be modified because the new C++ standard library does not necessarily have the same internal headers or use the same internal macros as the old one. 9.4.4 Known Issues 9.4.5 Differences Between Alpha and I64 Systems The following are differences between the I64 and Alpha standard libraries: o According to section 27.6.1.3 [lib.istream.unformatted] of the C++ Standard, the following get member functions of the std::basic_istream class should call setstate(failbit) if no characters have been stored, as is the case for an empty line. While on I64 systems the functions set failbit, on Alpha systems they do not: istream_type& get(char_type *s, streamsize n, char_type delim); istream_type& get(char_type *s, streamsize n); For example, on an Alpha system, the following program invoked to read its own source (like pipe run x.exe < x.cxx), reads the whole file and outputs: "21 lines were read". 80 On an I64 system, the program exits the for loop after encountering an empty line and outputs: "6 lines were read". #ifndef __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #define __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #endif #include #include using namespace std; int main() { char buffer[1024], c; int lines; for (lines = 0; cin.good(); ++lines) { cin.get(buffer, sizeof(buffer)); if ( !cin.eof() ) { // consume delimeter assert( (cin.get(c), c) == '\n' ); } } cout << lines << " lines were read\n"; } o On OpenVMS I64 systems, a program mixing objects of std::complex class instantiated on different integral types or on an integral type and a floating type in the same expression, needs to be compiled with the _RWSTD_ NO_MEMBER_TEMPLATES macro defined. Note that according to Section 26.2 - Complex numbers [lib.complex.numbers] of the C++ standard, the template std::complex can be instantiated only on a floating type. From the standard: "The effect of instantiating the template complex for any type other than float, double or long double is unspecified". For example, the following program compiles on Alpha systems without any special macro defined. On I64 systems, it compiles only with the _RWSTD_NO_MEMBER_ TEMPLATES macro defined: 81 #include int main() { std::complex ci(1, 2); std::complex cl(3, 4); ci += cl; } o On OpenVMS Alpha systems, the following constructors for the C++ standard library classes strstream and ostrstream initialize ptr[count-1] with a null byte: strstream(char *ptr, streamsize count, ios_base::openmode mode = ios_base::in | ios_base::out); ostrstream(char *ptr, streamsize count, ios_base::openmode mode = ios_base::out); This initialization is not required by the C++ standard, and on I64 systems the C++ standard library does not do it. o On I64 systems, map and multimap containers require the standard-conformant form of allocator class: allocator >. For example, on Alpha systems, it is possible to declare an object of class multimap as the following, with the second template argument of allocator class omitted: multimap, allocator > x; But for I64 systems, this must be changed to: multimap, allocator > > x; o On I64 systems, the exception.what() function reports the module name, and the message text might be different. For example, an output on Alpha systems: Got an exception: string index out of range in function: basic_string:::replace(size_t,size_t,size_t,char) position: 100 is greater than length: 0 82 An output on I64 systems: Got an exception: CSRC:[STDIPF_INCLUDE]STRING.CC;:416: basic_string::replace(size_type, size_type, size_type, value_type): argument value 100 out of range [0, 0) o On I64 systems, iostreams extraction operators truncate out-of-range integer values to the maximum possible value for a given type, and set the failbit for the stream. For example, consider the following program: #ifndef __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #define __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #endif #include #include using namespace std; main() { istrstream is("32768"); // SHRT_MAX is 32767 short s; is >> s; cout << is.fail() << endl; cout << s << endl; } On Alpha systems, this program gives: 0 -32768 On I64 systems, it gives: 1 32767 Note that on I64 systems, the failbit for the stream is set. According to the C++ Standard, Section 22.2.2.1 - Template class num_get [lib.locale.num.get], an input that would have caused scanf to report an input failure should result in setting ios_base::failbit to err. Since on OpenVMS, scanf reports an input failure in this case (this is an undefined behavior from the point 83 of view of the C standard), the behavior of the C++ standard library on I64 systems is standard-compliant. o On Alpha systems, the find template function is implemented using operator!=. On I64 systems, this function is implemented using operator==, which according to the C++ standard is the operator the find function should be using. Consequently, if no conversion from *InputIterator to T exists, on Alpha systems the following function can be instantiated only if operator!=(*InputIterator,T) exists: find(InputIterator first, InputIterator last, const T& value) On I64 systems, however, the function can be instanti- ated only if operator==(*InputIterator,T) exists. The following program illustrates the difference. If you comment out the line bool operator!=(S, int);, the program does not compile on Alpha systems. If you comment out the line bool operator==(S, int);, the program does not compile on I64 systems. The behavior on I64 systems is the standard-conformant behavior. include #include struct S { int i; }; bool operator!=(S, int); bool operator==(S, int); void foo() { std::vector v; std::find(v.begin(), v.end(), 0); } o On I64 systems, an attempt to write into a stream opened for read (ios::in), causes the stream badbit bit to be set. On both Alpha and I64 systems, nothing is written into a stream opened for read. However, on Alpha systems, the stream badbit bit is not set. 84 The C++ standard does not provide explicit guidance about what to do in this case. However, the behavior on I64 systems is more reasonable-at least there is an indication that something was wrong. o On I64 systems, reverse_iterator cannot be instantiated on vector::iterator type. For example, the following program, which compiles cleanly on Alpha systems, does not compile on I64 systems: #include typedef std::reverse_iterator::iterator> ri; main() { ri::pointer (ri::*foo)() const = &ri::operator->; } A recently adopted resolution for the library issue 120 has made this construct invalid. See http://std.dkuug.dk/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/lwg-active.html#120 for more details. o On I64 systems, for a random access iterator, operator- (const random_access_iterator&) returning difference_ type must be const. For example, the following program compiles cleanly on Alpha systems. However, on I64 systems it compiles only if // const is uncommented. #include template class randomaccessiterator { public: typedef T value_type; typedef int difference_type; typedef T* pointer; typedef T& reference; typedef std::random_access_iterator_tag iterator_category; 85 bool operator==(const randomaccessiterator&); bool operator!=(const randomaccessiterator&); T& operator*() const; T* operator->(); randomaccessiterator& operator++(); const randomaccessiterator& operator++(difference_type); randomaccessiterator& operator--(); const randomaccessiterator& operator--(difference_type); randomaccessiterator& operator+=(difference_type); randomaccessiterator& operator+(difference_type); randomaccessiterator& operator-=(difference_type); randomaccessiterator& operator-(difference_type); difference_type operator-(const randomaccessiterator&); // const; }; struct S {}; typedef randomaccessiterator Iterator; typedef bool (*Predicate)(Iterator::value_type); template Iterator std::stable_partition(Iterator, Iterator, Predicate); Table 76 in the C++ standard specifies the requirements for a random access iterator. It says the expression b - a must be valid, where a and b denote values of X, the random access iterator. It is not completely clear from the standard whether values of X also imply const values of X, but if the answer is yes, the behavior on I64 systems is correct. o On I64 systems, an attempt to call the strstream.seekg(0) function for an empty stream (the one whose 'next' pointer is NULL) causes the stream failbit to be set. This is a standard-compliant behavior. Notice that after the failbit is set for the stream, the strstream.str() function returns a NULL pointer. o On I64 systems, after a call to string.resize(newsize), string.capacity() does not necessarily returns newsize. While on Alpha systems the string.capacity() function returns newsize, this is not required by the C++ standard. A program relying on Alpha behavior should be modified to call the string.size() function instead. 86 o On I64 systems, there is no overload of basic_string class for type bool. Version v3.0 of the Rogue Wave C++ standard library does not have this problematic nonstandard overload. For OpenVMS Alpha, it has been recently removed from the library. o On I64 systems, class std::fpos does not have the nonstandard member function offset(). You can use fpos::operator streamoff() instead. For example: #ifndef __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #define __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #endif #include using namespace std; void foo() { istringstream in("hello, world"); streamoff offset; offset = in.tellg().offset(); // Alpha only offset = streamoff(in.tellg()); // either Alpha or I64 } o On OpenVMS Alpha systems, operator< used by the non- predicate forms of the sorting algorithms like push_ heap() may or may not be declared constant. On I64 systems, this operator must be a constant operator. For example, on OpenVMS Alpha systems, the following program would compile without 'bool operator<(const S&)' qualified as const. On I64 systems, the const is necessary. #include #include struct S { bool operator<(const S&) const; }; 87 void foo() { std::vector v; std::push_heap(v.begin(),v.end()); } The C++ standard does not specify whether or not this program compiles. Since operator< must induce a strict- weak ordering on its arguments, which prevents it from modifying their values, there should be no reason not to declare it const. o On OpenVMS Alpha systems, for an unsigned type, the C++ standard library iostreams ignores std::showpos manipulator. On I64 systems, the plus sign is displayed. This behavior is standard-compliant. Consider the following example: x.cxx ----- #ifndef __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #define __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #endif #include main() { std::cout << std::showpos << (unsigned)1 << std::endl; } On OpenVMS Alpha systems, x.cxx outputs: 1 On I64 systems, x.cxx outputs: +1 9.4.6 Restrictions in Version 7.1 This section describes problems you might encounter when using the current release of the C++ Standard Library with the HP C++ compiler. Where appropriate, workarounds are suggested. 88 9.4.6.1 Using the C++ Standard Library in Microsoft Standard Mode Compiling /STANDARD=MS has the following restrictions: o Header does not compile. o Header does not declare operator delete[](void*, void*). o Header does not declare type new_handler. o You cannot use std::reverse_iterator directly. For example, the following program does not compile in Microsoft mode: #include std::reverse_iterator x; o You cannot use types defined in std::iterator_traits. For example, the following program does not compile in Microsoft mode: #include template typename std::iterator_traits::value_type foo(void); void bar() { foo(); } o The std::count and std::count_if algorithms are not available in Microsoft mode. o You cannot use the std::sort and std::stable_sort algorithms on containers of pointers. For example, the following program does not compile in Microsoft mode: #include #include void foo() { std::vector v; std::stable_sort(v.begin(),v.end()); std::sort(v.begin(),v.end()); } 89 o You cannot take the address of a bitmask member of std::ios_base class. For example, the following program does not compile in Microsoft mode: #ifndef __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #define __USE_STD_IOSTREAM #endif #include const std::ios_base::fmtflags *x = &std::ios_base::boolalpha; 10 CXXLINK Changes Because of changes in the architecture on I64 systems, CXXLINK plays a much smaller role. Its only remaining purpose is to provide human readable (demangled) names for mangled C++ names in diagnostics generated by the linker. Specific changes are: o There is no LIBCXXSTD.OLB On I64 systems, there is no LIBCXXSTD.OLB, which is the object library where the C++ standard library for OpenVMS Alpha resides. See Section 9.4 for more information. o The library is reorganized The C++ libraries have been reorganized and incorpo- rated into the base system. CXXLINK no longer needs to specify any C++ libraries when invoking the system linker. See Section 9 for more information. o There are no templates in a repository With the new template instantiation model, objects are no longer placed in a repository. Therefore, CXXLINK no longer needs to look at the repositories for templates. See Section 8.3.9 for more information. 90 11 Installation To install HP C++ for OpenVMS I64 systems, set the default directory to a writeable directory to allow the IVP to succeed. Then run the PRODUCT INSTALL command, pointing to the kit location. For example: $ SET DEFAULT SYS$MANAGER $ PRODUCT INSTALL CXX/SOURCE=node::device:[kit_dir] After installation, these C++ release notes will be available at: SYS$HELP:CXX.RELEASE_NOTES SYS$HELP:CXX_RELEASE_NOTES.PS Here is a sample installation log: $ PRODUCT INSTALL CXX/SOURCE=NODE1$::DEV1$:[I64_CPP_KIT] The following product has been selected: HP I64VMS CXX V7.2-052 Layered Product Do you want to continue? [YES] Configuration phase starting ... You will be asked to choose options, if any, for each selected product and for any products that may be installed to satisfy software dependency requirements. HP I64VMS CXX V7.2-052: HP C++ for OpenVMS Industry Standard Copyright 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. This software product is sold by Hewlett-Packard Company PAKs used: CXX-V Do you want the defaults for all options? [YES] Copyright 2006 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. HP, the HP logo, Alpha and OpenVMS are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. in the U.S. and/or other countries. 91 Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. Do you want to review the options? [NO] Execution phase starting ... The following product will be installed to destination: HP I64VMS CXX V7.2-052 DISK$ICXXSYS:[VMS$COMMON.] The following product will be removed from destination: HP I64VMS CXX V7.1-152 DISK$ICXXSYS:[VMS$COMMON.] Portion done: 0%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% The following product has been installed: HP I64VMS CXX V7.2-052 Layered Product The following product has been removed: HP I64VMS CXX V7.1-155 Layered Product %PCSI-I-IVPEXECUTE, executing test procedure for HP I64VMS CXX V7.2-052 ... %PCSI-I-IVPSUCCESS, test procedure completed successfully HP I64VMS CXX V7.2-052: HP C++ for OpenVMS Industry Standard The release notes are located in the file SYS$HELP:CXX.RELEASE_NOTES for the text form and SYS$HELP:CXX_RELEASE_NOTES.PS for the postscript form. 11.1 Multiple Version Support Version 7.3 adds optional support for having multiple versions of the C compiler on your system. It works by appending an ident name to a previously installed compiler and saving it alongside the new compiler from this kit. Users on your system can then execute the sys$system:cxx$set_version.com and sys$system:cxx$show_ versions.com command procedures to select the desired compiler for a given process and to view the list of available compiler versions. To set this up, have your system administrator run the installation procedure, answering NO to the question about default options: 92 Do you want the defaults for all options? [YES] NO Then answer YES to the question about making alternate compilers available: Would you like to set up your system for running alternate versions of C? [NO] YES Users can then execute the cxx$set_version.com command procedure with an argument to set up process default logicals that point to alternate compiler versions. For more information on using cxx$set_version.com and cxx$show_version.com see section: "Enhancements, Changes, and Problems Corrected in V7.3". Sample installation for multiple-version Support: $ product install CXX /source=disk$:[dir] The following product has been selected: HP I64VMS CXX T7.3-18 Layered Product Do you want to continue? [YES] Configuration phase starting ... You will be asked to choose options, if any, for each selected product and for any products that may be installed to satisfy software dependency requirements. HP I64VMS CXX T7.3-18: HP C++ for OpenVMS Industry Standard Copyright 2003-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. This software product is sold by Hewlett-Packard Company PAKs used: CXX-V or CXX-V-USER Do you want the defaults for all options? [YES] no HP I64VMS VMS V8.3 [Installed] * Configuration options for this referenced product cannot * be changed now because the product is already installed. * (You can use PRODUCT RECONFIGURE later to change options.) Copyright 2003-2007 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. HP, the HP logo, Alpha and OpenVMS are trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. in the U.S. and/or other countries. 93 Confidential computer software. Valid license from HP required for possession, use or copying. Consistent with FAR 12.211 and 12.212, Commercial Computer Software, Computer Software Documentation, and Technical Data for Commercial Items are licensed to the U.S. Government under vendor's standard commercial license. Multi_Version Support: If you would like to set up your system to be able to run different versions of the compiler then answer yes. The installation procedure will then copy the previously installed C++ compiler and associated files along side the new compiler in this kit with a suffix appended to the name that corresponds to the version number. Users may then execute CXX$SET_VERSION.COM to run an alternate version of the compiler and CXX$SHOW_VERSIONS.COM to show available versions at anytime after this installation. Would you like to set up your system for running alternate versions of C++? [NO] yes Do you want to review the options? [NO] Execution phase starting ... The following product will be installed to destination: HP I64VMS CXX T7.3-18 DISK$ICXXSYS:[VMS$COMMON.] Portion done: 0%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100% The following product has been installed: HP I64VMS CXX T7.3-18 Layered Product %PCSI-I-IVPEXECUTE, executing test procedure for HP I64VMS CXX T7.3-18 ... %PCSI-I-IVPSUCCESS, test procedure completed successfully HP I64VMS CXX T7.3-18: HP C++ for OpenVMS Industry Standard Text form of the release notes are located in the file SYS$HELP:CXX.RELEASE_NOTES SYS$HELP:CXX_RELEASE_NOTES.PS contains the postscript form. A startup file SYS$STARTUP:CXX$STARTUP.COM has been provided. It contains commands which can be executed after the product install procedure has been run and at startup to allow for the best compilation performance. You may want to invoke this command file from your system's site-specific start up file. This command file does not have to be invoked for correct operation of HP C++. 94 12 Reporting Problems Please report problems or offer feedback using the mechanisms specified in the HP C++ User's Guide preface. 95