Document revision date: 9 May 2001

Chapter 6
6	Programming Release Notes
6.1	Backup API
6.1.1	Unexpected Informational Message
6.1.2	Journaling Callback Events Restriction
6.1.3	Repetitive Calls to BACKUP$START Can Cause an Error
6.2	Batch and Print Queues---Terminating Executing Batch Jobs
6.3	COM for OpenVMS (Alpha Only)
6.4	Compaq Ada Run-Time Library
6.4.1	OpenVMS Text Libraries Containing Ada Declarations
6.4.2	Unexpected Storage Errors (Alpha Only)
6.4.3	AST Procedures No Longer Receive Access Violations
6.5	Compaq C Run-Time Library
6.5.1	The strptime Function Is Now XPG5 Compliant
6.5.2	The times and clock Functions Are Now AST Reentrant
6.5.3	Limitation of Eight Nested Directory Levels Is Lifted (Alpha Only)
6.5.4	Long OpenVMS Style File Names Accepted as Arguments (Alpha Only)
6.5.5	Case Preservation Supported in File Names (Alpha Only)
6.5.6	Exact Case argv Arguments Supported (Alpha Only)
6.5.7	Opening Files for Shared Access
6.5.8	Alternate Way to Translate UNIX File Specifications
6.5.9	Internationalization Support
6.5.10	New Functions
6.5.11	New LINK Command for Linking /NOSYSSHR (VAX Only)
6.5.12	The select Socket Function Returns Failure for Invalid File Descriptor
6.6	Compaq COBOL Run-Time Library (Alpha Only)
6.6.1	New Routines to Support Y2K Intrinsic Functions
6.6.2	Performance Improvements
6.6.3	RTL Compatibility with Programs Linked Against Older Version
6.6.4	UNSTRING with /NATIONALITY=JAPAN
6.6.5	ON SIZE ERROR Support
6.6.6	READ PRIOR Support
6.7	Compaq COBOL Run-Time Library (VAX Only)---New Routines to Support Y2K Intrinsic Functions
6.8	Compaq Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) for OpenVMS
6.8.1	DCE System Management Command Procedure
6.8.2	NTLM Authenticated RPC Functionality Now Available
6.9	Debugger
6.9.1	ANALYZE/PROCESS_DUMP Command (Alpha Only)
6.9.2	SET MODULE Command
6.9.3	SET EVENT Ada Command
6.9.4	Enumerated Lists
6.9.5	Enumeration Literals as Class Members
6.9.6	Global Symbol Table Search
6.9.7	Global Section Watchpoints (Alpha Only)
6.9.8	Array Elements Displayed Differently on VAX and Alpha
6.9.9	Wrong Address in C++
6.9.10	Cross-Image Symbol Fixup
6.9.11	Interrupting Program Execution in Compaq DECwindows Motif Interface
6.9.12	Nested Anonymous Unions
6.9.13	Anonymous Structs in C
6.9.14	Symbolization of C++ References
6.9.15	Enumerators as Class Symbols
6.9.16	Inline Code
6.9.17	Symbols in Nested Ada Packages
6.9.18	Symbol Table Errors
6.9.19	Debugger Runs out of Memory at Startup
6.9.20	Nonunique COBOL Symbol Lookups (VAX Only)
6.9.21	Register View
6.9.22	Source View Errors
6.9.23	Source View Update
6.9.24	SHOW SYMBOL IN Clause
6.9.25	Corrupted Stack Errors (Alpha Only)
6.9.26	Just-in-Time Debugging
6.9.27	Debugger Does Not Support Previous Version of Client/Server Interface
6.10	Debugging Modes---Avoiding CPUSPINWAIT Bugchecks
6.11	Hypersort (SORT/MERGE/CONVERT)---Alpha Only
6.11.1	Hypersort and /FORMAT=RECORD_SIZE - Restriction
6.11.2	Hypersort and Input Asterisk (*)---Restriction
6.11.3	Hypersort and Free Disk Space for Work Files---Restriction
6.11.4	Hypersort Work File Directories---Restriction
6.11.5	Hypersort and VFC Files---Known Problem
6.11.6	Hypersort and /STATISTICS Working-Set Display---Known Problem
6.11.7	Hypersort and INSVIRMEM---Restriction
6.12	Lexical Functions---F$GETSYI Lexical: Item NODE_HWTYPE Is Obsolete
6.13	Librarian Utility---PGFLQUOTA Should Exceed 23000 (Alpha Only)
6.14	Linker Utility---Limit of 25 Elements on Stack
6.15	LTDRIVER---CANCEL SELECTIVE Cannot Cancel IO$_TTY_PORT Functions
6.16	MACRO--32 Compiler for OpenVMS Alpha (Alpha Only)
6.17	Mail Utility---Threads Restriction for Callable Mail
6.18	Mathematics (MTH$) Run-Time Library---Linking Images
6.19	OpenVMS Registry (Alpha Only)
6.19.1	Registry Key Attribute Change Notifications Unsupported
6.19.2	Easing of Registry Data Transfer Size Restriction
6.20	POSIX Threads Library
6.20.1	Process Dumps
6.20.2	Dynamic CPU Configuration Changes
6.20.3	Enhanced Debugging of Threaded Programs
6.20.4	POSIX 1003.4a Draft 4 Interface Retirement
6.20.5	Setting of the MULTITHREAD SYSGEN Parameter on NUMA Systems
6.20.6	POSIX Threads Library Debugger Metering Function
6.20.7	C Run-Time Library errno Value
6.20.8	SET TASK/ACTIVE Command
6.21	Privileged Interfaces and Data Structures (Alpha Only)
6.21.1	Per-Thread Security and Backward Compatibility
6.21.2	Privileged Code Changes at Version 7.0
6.21.3	Per-Thread Security Impacts Privileged Code and Device Drivers
6.22	Record Management Services (RMS)
6.22.1	Potential CONVERT-I-SEQ Error on CONVERT/NOSORT with Collated Key
6.22.2	Circular Directory Path Detection (Alpha Only)
6.22.3	Directory Cache Limits Removed
6.23	Run-Time Library (LIB$)---LIB$FIND_IMAGE_SYMBOL Signals Warning for Modules with Compilation Errors
6.24	Screen Management (SMG$) Facility Documentation
6.25	Soft Affinity---Soft Affinity Disabled (Alpha Only)
6.26	SORT32 (SORT/MERGE/CONVERT)
6.26.1	SORT32 with /WORK_FILES=2 or Higher---Restriction
6.26.2	SORT32 Work File Directories---Restriction
6.26.3	SORT32 and VFC Format Files (Restriction)
6.26.4	SORT32 and /STATISTICS Working-Set Display
6.27	System Services
6.27.1	Performance API - $GETRMI
6.27.2	$PERSONA System Services: Flags Ignored (Alpha Only)
6.27.3	$PERSONA System Services: Default Privilege Change (Alpha Only)
6.27.4	$PERSONA System Services: Audit Record Change (Alpha Only)
6.27.5	Linking SECURESHR Images to Run on Older Versions
6.27.6	$SUSPND Behaves Incorrectly in a Cluster Environment
6.27.7	$PERSONA Restrictions Removed (Alpha Only)

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