Host Platforms - HP eld Manual

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This section contains the following information:

Host Platforms

Target Platforms
Output Object Files
The Creation of Output Object Files
Creating Segments of the Output Loadfile
Using a DLL Registry
Input Object Files
Using Archives
Host Platforms
The TNS/E linker (
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The TNS/E linker runs on the TNS/E version of the HP NonStop operating system,
with both the Guardian and OSS personalities.
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The TNS/E linker runs on TNS/R versions of the HP NonStop operating system.
This means you can link PIC object files into TNS/E loadfiles as part of your
development cycle on that platform - but you will not be able to execute those
loadfiles on TNS/R.
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The TNS/E linker runs on appropriate versions of the Windows operating system
on PC's.
The TNS/E linker's features are the same for all host platforms unless otherwise
specified in this manual. Differences often relate to the different types of filenames and
file characteristics on different platforms.
The Guardian namespace also exists as a subset of the OSS file system, where a
Guardian file named $a.b.c corresponds to an OSS file named /G/a/b/c.
The Guardian namespace is a set of rules use for naming files in the Guardian
filesystem. A complete description of those rules may be found in the OSS filename
(5) reference page in the OSS System Calls Reference Manual.
Those rules include:
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The Guardian namespace ignores lowercase, the OSS namespace uses
lowercase.
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$ and \ are not recognized in the OSS namespace
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If a filename contains a period in it, and a file of that name is to be created in a
Guardian subvolume, the period is deleted from the name.
- where the linker may be used.
- where the output from the linker may be used.
- what forms (libraries, loadfiles and DLLs) that output may take.
- how you can manage DLL addressing.
- which files you can use as input.
- how you can group multiple linkfiles together for
) runs on several platforms, as follows.
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- how you control the process.
- how parts of a loadfile are created.
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