HP Nld User manual

nld and noft Manual

Abstract

This manual explains how to use the following TNS/R native object file utilities: nld

(T6017), which links and changes object file attributes; noft (T9626), which displays

object files; ar (T8629), which creates and maintains archives of object files; and

strip (T8629), which removes unnecessary information from loadable object files

(loadfiles) in the HP NonStop™ Kernel Open System Services (OSS) environment.

Product Version

nld D44

noft D45

ar D43

strip D43

Supported Release Updates (RVUs)

This manual supports D45 and G06 and all subsequent RVUs until otherwise indicated

in a new edition.

Part Number Published

520384-003 May 2003

Document History

Part Number Product Version Published

426922-001 nld D44, noft D42, ar D43 November 2000

427686-001 nld D44, noft D42, ar D43, strip D43 February 2001

520384-001 nld D44, noft D42, ar D43, strip D43 July 2001

520384-002 nld D44, noft D42, ar D43, strip D43 February 2002

520384-003 nld D44, noft D45, ar D43, strip D43 May 2003

Hewlett-Packard Company—520384-003

nld and noft Manual

Glossary Index Examples Tables

What’s New in This Manual xi

Manual Information xi

New and Changed Information xii

About This Manual xv

Audience xv

Related Reading xvi

Your Comments Invited xvi

Notation Conventions xvii

1. Introduction to the Utilities

Native Object Files 1-2

nld 1-2

noft 1-4

ar 1-5

strip 1-5

2. nld Utility

Running the nld Utility in the Guardian Environment 2-1

Running the nld Utility in the OSS Environment 2-3

Running Windows nld on the PC 2-4

Components of Windows nld 2-4

Directory Structure of Windows nld 2-4

Compilers That Can Launch Windows nld 2-5

How Windows nld Differs from nld 2-5

How the ETK Command-Line and GUI Interfaces Differ 2-6

Command-Line Interface Linking Options 2-7

Changing the Target Environment 2-8

Creating Loadfiles and Linkfiles 2-8

Contents

nld and noft Manual—520384-003

2. nld Utility (continued)

Linking Programs 2-9

C Programs 2-9

C++ Programs 2-10

COBOL Programs 2-12

pTAL Programs 2-13

Mixed-Language Programs 2-13

Programs With Embedded NonStop SQL/MP 2-13

Linking User Libraries 2-13

Linking Shared Run-Time Libraries (SRLs) 2-15

Specifying SRLs 2-16

Determining Which SRLs Programs Require 2-17

Linking Archive Files 2-21

Linking Floating-Point Programs 2-22

Link-Time Consistency Checking 2-23

Run-Time Consistency Checking 2-25

Linking Mixed-Language Programs 2-26

Searching for Archives and SRLs With Simple Filenames 2-27

Dynamic and Static Linking 2-28

Stripping Symbol Information 2-29

nld Compilation Rules 2-29

Case Sensitivity 2-29

Local and Shared Symbols 2-30

Declaration and Definition 2-31

3. nld Options

-allow_duplicate_procs 3-2

-allow_missing_libs 3-3

-allow_multiple_mains 3-3

-ansistreams 3-3

-bdynamic 3-3

-bstatic 3-4

-change 3-4

-e 3-5

-elf_check 3-5

-export 3-5

-fl or -obey 3-6

-import 3-6

-l or -lib 3-7

Contents

nld and noft Manual—520384-003

iii

3. nld Options (continued)

-L or -libvol 3-8

-libname 3-9

-nostdfiles 3-9

-nostdlib 3-9

-noverbose 3-10

-NS_extent_size 3-10

-NS_max_extents 3-10

-o 3-11

-r 3-11

-rename 3-12

-s 3-12

-set 3-13

-stdin 3-15

-strip 3-16

-ul 3-16

-verbose 3-16

-x 3-17

-y 3-17

4. noft Utility

Running the noft Utility in the Guardian Environment 4-1

Running the noft Utility in the OSS Environment 4-3

Listing Object Files 4-4

Dumping Object Files 4-5

Controlling the noft Environment 4-5

Debugging With noft 4-7

5. noft Options

Break Key 5-3

! (Exclamation Point) 5-4

CD 5-5

COMMENT 5-5

DUMPADDRESS or DA 5-6

DUMPOFFSET or DO 5-8

DUMPPROC or DP 5-10

ENV 5-13

EXIT or E 5-13

FC 5-14

Contents

nld and noft Manual—520384-003

5. noft Options (continued)

FILE or F 5-15

HELP or ? 5-17

HISTORY or H 5-20

LAYOUT 5-21

LISTATTRIBUTE or LA 5-22

LISTCOMPILERS or LC 5-23

LISTOPTIMIZE or LO 5-26

LISTPROC or LP 5-27

LISTSOURCE or LS 5-29

LISTSRLEXPORTS or LLE 5-30

LISTSRLFIXUPS or LLF 5-30

LISTSRLINFO or LLI 5-31

LISTUNREFERENCED or LUR 5-32

LISTUNRESOLVED or LU 5-35

LOG 5-38

OBEY 5-39

OUT 5-39

QUIT or Q 5-40

RESET 5-41

SET 5-42

SHOW 5-47

SYSTEM or VOLUME 5-48

XREFPROC or XP 5-49

6. ar Utility

7. strip Utility

8. Native Object File Structure

Code and Data Segments 8-1

MDEBUG Section 8-2

9. Converting From Binder to nld and noft

Object File Differences 9-1

Linking Unit Differences 9-2

Comparing Binder Commands to nld Options 9-3

Comparing Binder Commands to noft Options 9-6

Contents

nld and noft Manual—520384-003

10. nld Diagnostic Messages

General Information 10-1

Terms That Appear in nld Diagnostic Messages 10-2

Fatal Errors 10-12

Nonfatal Errors 10-61

Warnings 10-69

Informational Messages 10-77

11. noft Diagnostic Messages

Fatal Errors 11-1

Data Errors 11-4

Warnings 11-18

Syntax Errors 11-22

12. ar Diagnostic Messages

A. Sample nld and noft Session

Example Program A-1

Header Files A-2

Source Module MAINC A-3

Source Module MODULE1C A-3

Source Module MODULE2C A-5

User Library UTILC A-6

Compilation Commands A-6

nld Command Examples A-7

Program Output A-8

noft Command Examples on a Linkfile A-9

FILE A-9

LISTATTRIBUTE A-9

LISTCOMPILERS A-10

LISTPROC A-10

LISTSOURCE A-12

LISTSRLINFO A-13

LISTUNRESOLVED A-14

Contents

nld and noft Manual—520384-003

A. Sample nld and noft Session (continued)

noft Command Examples on a Loadfile A-15

FILE A-15

LISTATTRIBUTE A-16

LISTCOMPILERS A-17

LISTPROC A-17

LISTSOURCE A-18

SET SORT A-19

LISTSRLINFO A-19

LISTUNRESOLVED A-20

LISTOPTIMIZE A-21

XREFPROC A-21

DUMPPROC A-24

LISTSRLFIXUPS A-26

LISTSRLEXPORTS A-27

LISTSRLFIXUPS A-27

Glossary

Index

Examples

Example 2-1. Creating a Loadfile (Guardian) 2-2

Example 2-2. Changing the HIGHPIN Attribute (Guardian) 2-2

Example 2-3. Creating a Loadfile (OSS) 2-3

Example 2-4. Creating a User Library (OSS) 2-3

Example 2-5. Creating a Program File (OSS) 2-3

Example 2-6. Creating an Executable C Program (OSS) 2-4

Example 2-7. Running nmcobol and Launching Windows nld 2-5

Example 2-8. Running nld from the Command Prompt 2-6

Example 2-9. Creating a Program for the Guardian Environment (OSS) 2-8

Example 2-10. Creating an Executable C Program 2-10

Example 2-11. Linking a Mixed-Language Program With IEEE Floating-Point

Format 2-26

Example 2-12. Searching for ZCRTLSRL and ZCRESRL (Guardian) 2-28

Example 2-13. Searching for ZCRTLSRL and ZCRESRL (OSS) 2-28

Example 2-14. Searching for ZCOBSRL and ZCRESRL (OSS) 2-28

Example 4-1. noft Command Line 4-3

Example 4-2. Interactive noft Session Equivalent to Example 4-1 on page 4-3 4-4

Example 4-3. C Program 4-7

Contents

nld and noft Manual—520384-003

vii

Examples (continued)

Example 4-4. Optimize 0 Listing 4-8

Example 4-5. Optimize 1 Listing 4-9

Example 4-6. Optimize 2 Listing 4-10

Example 5-1. CD Option 5-5

Example 5-2. DUMPADDRESS Option 5-7

Example 5-3. DUMPOFFSET Option 5-9

Example 5-4. DUMPPROC Option 5-12

Example 5-5. Displaying Current noft Environment Settings 5-13

Example 5-6. FILE Option 5-16

Example 5-7. HELP ALL Option 5-18

Example 5-8. HELP SET HISTORYBUFFER 5-19

Example 5-9. HELP Without Options 5-19

Example 5-10. HISTORY Option 5-20

Example 5-11. LAYOUT Option 5-21

Example 5-12. LISTATTRIBUTE Option for Non-PIC Object File 5-22

Example 5-13. LISTATTRIBUTE Option for PIC Object File 5-23

Example 5-14. LISTCOMPILERS Option (BRIEF) 5-24

Example 5-15. LISTCOMPILERS Option (DETAIL) 5-24

Example 5-16. LISTOPTIMIZE Option 5-26

Example 5-17. LISTPROC Option (BRIEF) 5-28

Example 5-18. LISTPROC Option (DETAIL) 5-28

Example 5-19. LISTSOURCE Option (BRIEF) 5-29

Example 5-20. LISTSOURCE Option (DETAIL) 5-30

Example 5-21. LISTSRLINFO Option (BRIEF) 5-31

Example 5-22. LISTSRLINFO Option (DETAIL) 5-31

Example 5-23. pTAL Program for Example 5-24 and Example 5-29 5-33

Example 5-24. LISTUNREFERENCED Option for Example 5-23 pTAL

Program 5-33

Example 5-25. C Program for Example 5-26 and Example 5-30 5-34

Example 5-26. LISTREFERENCED Option for Example 5-25 C Program 5-34

Example 5-27. LISTUNRESOLVED Option (BRIEF) 5-36

Example 5-28. LISTUNRESOLVED Option (DETAIL) 5-36

Example 5-29. LISTUNRESOLVED Option for Example 5-23 pTAL Program 5-37

Example 5-30. LISTUNRESOLVED Option for Example 5-25 C Program 5-37

Example 5-31. Effect of EXCLUDE on LISTUNRESOLVED Option 5-37

Example 5-32. LOG Option 5-38

Example 5-33. OBEY Option 5-39

Example 5-34. OUT Option When “?” is Specified 5-40

Contents

nld and noft Manual—520384-003

viii

Examples (continued)

Example 5-35. Resetting Target Object File Parameters to Their Default

Values 5-41

Example 5-36. SHOW Option 5-47

Example 5-37. XREFPROC Option (BRIEF) 5-51

Example 5-38. XREFPROC Option (DETAIL) 5-51

Example 5-39. XREFPROC Option (for C Program in Example 5-25) 5-52

Example 5-40. XREFPROC Option for Non-PIC Object File With “Reference”

Indicators (CALLS and DETAIL) 5-52

Example 9-1. Linking Two Object Files in Binder and nld (Simple Case) 9-4

Example 9-2. Linking Two Object Files in Binder and nld (Less Simple Case) 9-5

Example 9-3. Setting the INSPECT Attribute in Binder and nld 9-5

Example A-1. Header File GLOBALSH With Edit Line Numbers A-2

Example A-2. Header File MODULE1H With Edit Line Numbers A-2

Example A-3. Header File MODULE2H With Edit Line Numbers A-2

Example A-4. Header File UTILH With Edit Line Number A-3

Example A-5. Source Module MAINC With Edit Line Numbers A-3

Example A-6. Source Module MODULE1C With Edit Line Numbers A-4

Example A-7. Source Module MODULE2C With Edit Line Numbers A-5

Example A-8. User Library UTILC With Edit Line Numbers A-6

Example A-9. Linking an Executable User Library A-7

Example A-10. Linking a Program File A-7

Example A-11. Sample Program Output A-8

Example A-12. FILE Option (Linkfile) A-9

Example A-13. LISTATTRIBUTE Option (Linkfile) A-9

Example A-14. LISTCOMPILERS Option (Linkfile) A-10

Example A-15. LISTPROC Option (Linkfile) A-11

Example A-16. LISTSOURCE Option (Linkfile) A-12

Example A-17. LISTSRLINFO Option (Linkfile) A-13

Example A-18. LISTUNRESOLVED Option (Linkfile) A-14

Example A-19. FILE Option (Loadfile) A-15

Example A-20. LISTATTRIBUTE Option (Loadfile) A-16

Example A-21. LISTCOMPILERS Option (Loadfile) A-17

Example A-22. LISTPROC Option (Loadfile) A-17

Example A-23. LISTSOURCE Option (Loadfile) A-18

Example A-24. Effect of SET SORT on LISTPROC and LISTSOURCE A-19

Example A-25. LISTSRLINFO Option (Loadfile) A-19

Example A-26. LISTUNRESOLVED Option (Loadfile) A-20

Example A-27. LISTOPTIMIZE Option (Loadfile) A-21

This manual suits for next models

Table of contents

Other HP Software manuals

HP BladeSystem Dual NC370i - Multifunction Network... User manual

HP A4500A - VMEbus Single Board Computer 744... Instruction Manual

HP Integrity BL860c User manual

HP C7791C - DesignJet 130 Color Inkjet Printer Configuration guide

HP 6100 Instruction Manual

HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation User manual

HP LASERJET PRO 400 Service manual

HP Xw460c - ProLiant - Blade Workstation User manual

HP P9000 Instruction Manual

HP SysMan User manual

HP Data Protector A.06.1x Installation guide

HP Compaq dc7900 Business PC User manual

HP 201723-B21 - HP StorageWorks Modular SAN Array 1000 Hard... Instruction Manual

HP Bc1500 - BladeSystem - Blade PC User manual

HP AK373A - StorageWorks All-in-One Storage System 1200r 5.4TB SAS Model NAS... How to use

HP t5300 - Thin Client User manual

HP Compaq dc5750 MT User manual

HP ProLiant BL280c G6 Reference manual

HP VL400 - Vectra - 64 MB RAM Service manual

HP C7791C - DesignJet 130 Color Inkjet Printer Configuration guide

HP BB118BV - StorageWorks Data Protector Express... Installation and operating instructions

HP 3000 - 37XE System Instruction Manual

HP Integrity BL890c - i2 Server User manual

HP B2355-92068 Instruction Manual

Popular Software manuals by other brands

COMPRO

COMPRO COMPROFM manual

Muratec

Muratec OFFICEBRIDGE ONLINE user guide

Oracle

Oracle Contact Center Anywhere 8.1 installation guide

Adobe

Adobe 65007312 - Photoshop Lightroom Programmer's guide

Avaya

Avaya NULL One-X for RIM Blackberry user guide

PS Audio

PS Audio PowerPlay Programming manual

Brady

Brady LOCKOUT PRO 3.0 Administrator's guide

Avaya

Avaya Interaction Center user guide

Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments TI-83 Plus Silver Edition Guide book

Novell

Novell GROUPWISE 8 - INTERNET AGENT manual

Oracle

Oracle Application 9i Configuration guide

Acer

Acer RDM user guide

Canon

Canon Vixia HF21 instruction manual

Canon

Canon ZR950 instruction manual

Samsung

Samsung Auto Backup user manual

Polycom

Polycom Vortex EF2201 Application note

Brocade Communications Systems

Brocade Communications Systems Brocade 8/12c user manual

Novell

Novell SP2 - S release note

HP nld User manual

Popular Software manuals by other brands