Developer's Topics

Table of Contents

• About this book
  • Typographical conventions
  • Related documentation
    • Commercial books and articles
  • How can we improve this book?
• Chapter 1: Choosing a development environment
  • C and C++ compilers
  • Binary Compatibility Module
  • Java development
  • Other languages
  • Developing device drivers
• Chapter 1: Floating point operations
  • IEEE arithmetic
    • Single-precision
    • Double-precision
    • Extended-precision
    • Normalized numbers
    • Denormalized numbers
    • Maximum and minimum representable floating point values
    • Special-case values
    • NaNs and infinities
    • Rounding control
    • Exceptions, sticky bits, and trap bits
  • Single-precision floating point operations
  • Double-extended-precision
  • IEEE requirements
    • Conversion of floating point formats to integer
    • Square root
    • Compares and unordered condition
    • NaNs and infinities in input/output
• Chapter 2: Complying with standard C
  • Mixing old and new style functions
    • Writing new code
    • Updating existing code
    • Mixing considerations
    • Examples
  • Functions with varying arguments
  • Promotions: unsigned vs. value preserving
    • Background
    • Compilation behavior
    • First example: using a cast
    • Bit-fields
    • Second example: result is the same
    • Integral constants
    • Third example: integral constants
  • Tokenization and preprocessing
    • ANSI C translation phases
    • Old C translation phases
    • Logical source lines
    • Macro replacement
    • Stringizing
    • Token pasting
  • Using const and volatile
    • Types for lvalues
    • Type qualifiers in derived types
    • Using const to read character values
    • When to use volatile
  • Multibyte characters and wide characters
    • ``Asianization'' means multibyte characters
    • Encoding variations
    • Wide characters
    • Conversion functions
    • C language features
  • Standard headers and reserved names
    • Balancing process
    • Standard headers
    • Names reserved for implementation use
    • Names reserved for expansion
    • Names safe to use
  • Internationalization
    • Locales
    • The setlocale() function
    • Changed functions
    • New functions
  • Grouping and evaluation in expressions
    • Definitions
    • The Kernighan and Ritchie C rearrangement license
    • The ANSI C rules
    • Parentheses grouping and evaluation
    • The ``as if'' rule
  • Incomplete types
    • Types
    • Completing incomplete types
    • Declarations
    • Expressions
    • Justification
    • Examples
  • Compatible and composite types
    • Multiple declarations
    • Separate compilation compatibility
    • Single compilation compatibility
    • Compatible pointer types
    • Compatible array types
    • Compatible function types
    • Special cases
    • Composite type
• Chapter 3: Constructing and using message catalogs
  • Creating a message catalog
  • Code example using a message catalog
  • Combining the message catalog and the application program
  • Running the application program
• Chapter 4: Using trusted facilities
  • Using protected subsystems
  • Guidelines for using trusted facilities
  • Programming examples
  • subsys.c example
  • prwarn.c example
  • loge.c example
• Chapter 5: Using the event manager API
  • Operation and semantics overview
  • Event generating hardware
  • Using the event queue
  • Event manager calls
  • A sample program
• Chapter 6: Job control under ksh
• Chapter 7: Common Object File Format (COFF)
  • Definitions and conventions
  • File header
  • Optional header information
    • Standard UNIX system a.out header
    • Optional header declaration
  • Section headers
    • Flags
    • Section header declaration
    • .bss section header
  • Sections
  • Relocation information
  • Line numbers
  • Symbol table
    • Special symbols
    • Inner blocks
    • Symbols and functions
    • Symbol table entries
    • Symbol names
    • Storage classes
    • Storage classes for special symbols
    • Symbol value field
    • Section number field
    • Section numbers and storage classes
    • Type entry
    • Type entries and storage classes
    • Structure for symbol table entries
    • Auxiliary table entries
    • File names
    • Sections
    • Tag names
    • End of structures
    • Functions
    • Arrays
    • End of blocks and functions
    • Beginning of blocks and functions
    • Names related to structures, unions, and enumerations
    • Auxiliary entry declaration
  • String table
  • Access routines
• Chapter 8: ELF object files
  • File format
  • Program linking
    • ELF header
    • ELF identification
    • ELF header flags
    • Section header
      • Special sections
    • String table
    • Symbol table
      • Symbol values
    • Relocation
  • Program execution
    • Program header
      • Base address
      • Segment permissions
      • Segment contents
      • Note section
    • Program loading (processor-specific)
    • Program interpreter
    • Dynamic linker
      • Dynamic section
      • Shared object dependencies
      • Hash table
      • Initialization and termination functions
• Chapter 9: Enhanced asm facility
  • Definition of terms
  • Example
    • Definition
    • Use
  • Using asm macros
    • Definition
      • Storage modes
      • asm body
  • Writing asm macros
• Chapter 10: Mapfile option
  • Using the mapfile option
    • Mapfile structure and syntax
    • Segment declarations
    • Mapping directives
    • Size-Symbol declarations
  • Mapping example
  • Mapfile option defaults
  • Internal map structure
  • Error messages
    • Warnings
    • Fatal errors
• Chapter 11: Integrating applications into the Desktop
  • What you should know
  • Graphical interface standards and libraries
  • Backward compatibility
  • Putting your icon on the Desktop
    • Create your icon pixmaps
    • Define icon triggers
      • Starting your application with the activate trigger
      • Starting your application with the drop trigger
      • Popping up a menu with the menu trigger
    • Install icon files
      • Removing pixmaps, object files, and application rules
      • Making applications user-installable
    • Animating icons
    • Localizing icon labels and messages
    • Creating icons for user data files
  • Adapting to display resolution at run time
  • Supporting the Desktop color selector
    • Defining display-dependent colors
  • Communicating with the session manager
• Chapter 12: Custom Distribution Mastering Toolkit
  • Creating custom-installable software distributions
    • About Software Storage Objects (SSO)
      • Component identifiers
      • Advantages of using SSOs
    • Planning your product structure
      • Product structure
    • Determining SSO file attributes
    • Setting up the distribution tree
    • Setting up the CDMT environment
    • Creating CDMT input files
    • Creating and populating the SSO tree
    • Creating custom-installable SSO archives
  • Advanced software installations
    • About component scripts
    • Software management phases
      • LOAD and UNLOAD phases
      • ATTACH and UNATTACH phases
      • REGISTER and UNREGISTER phases
      • CONFIGURE and UNCONFIGURE phases
      • EXPORT and UNEXPORT phases
      • Component script guidelines
      • Component script structure
      • Component script environment variables
    • Creating software upgrades
      • Specifying the upgrade versions
      • Specifying packages to upgrade
    • About the SSO Path Mapping API
    • Using the SSO Path Mapping API
      • C and C++ programs API
      • Tcl scripts API
      • Bourne and Korn shell scripts API
• Chapter 13: Packaging your software applications
  • Contents of a package
    • Required components
    • Optional package information files
    • Optional installation scripts
  • The structural life cycle of a package
  • The package creation tools
    • pkgmk
    • pkgtrans
    • pkgproto
  • The installation tools
  • The package information files
    • pkginfo
    • prototype
      • The description lines
      • The command lines
    • compver
    • copyright
    • depend
    • space
    • pkgmap
  • The installation scripts
    • Script processing
    • Installation parameters
    • Getting package information for a script
    • Exit codes for scripts
    • The request script
      • Request script naming conventions
      • Request script usage rules
      • Soliciting user input in request scripts
    • The class action script
      • Class action script naming conventions
      • Class action script usage rules
      • Installation of classes
      • Removal of classes
    • The special system classes
      • The sed class script
      • The awk class script
      • The build class script
    • The procedure script
      • Naming conventions for procedure scripts
      • Procedure script usage rules
  • Basic steps of packaging
    • 1. Assigning a package abbreviation
    • 2. Defining a package instance
      • Identifying a package instance
      • Accessing the instance identifier in your scripts
    • 3. Placing objects into classes
    • 4. Making package objects relocatable
      • Defining collectively relocatable objects
      • Defining individually relocatable objects
    • 5. Writing your installation scripts
      • Reserving additional space on the installation machine
    • 6. Defining package dependencies
    • 7. Writing a copyright message
    • 8. Creating the pkginfo file
    • 9. Creating the prototype file
      • Creating the file using pkgproto
    • 10. Distributing packages over multiple volumes
    • 11. Creating a package with pkgmk
      • Package file compression
      • Creating a package instance
      • Helping pkgmk locate package contents
    • 12. Creating a package with pkgtrans
      • Creating a datastream package
      • Translating a package instance
  • Set packaging
    • Set installation
    • Set removal
    • Set information display
    • The setsize file
    • The setsizecvt command
  • Quick reference to packaging procedures
  • Case studies of package installation
    • 1. Selective installation
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • pkginfo file
      • prototype file
      • request script
    • 2. Device driver installation
    • 3. Create an installation database
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • pkginfo file
      • prototype file
      • space file
      • Installation class action script (i.admin)
      • Removal class action script (r.cfgdata)
    • 4. Define package compatibilities and dependencies
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • pkginfo file
      • copyright file
      • compver file
      • depend file
    • 5a. Modify an existing file using the sed class
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • pkginfo file
      • prototype file
      • sed script (/home/mypkg/inittab.sed)
      • postinstall script
    • 5b. Modify an existing file using a class action script
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • pkginfo file
      • prototype file
      • Installation class action script (i.inittab)
      • Removal class action script (r.inittab)
      • inittab file
    • 5c. Modify an existing file using the build class
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • pkginfo file
      • prototype file
      • build script (/home/case5c/inittab.build)
    • 6. Modify crontab files during installation
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • pkginfo file
      • prototype file
      • Installation class action script (i.cron)
      • Removal class action script (r.cron)
      • root crontab file (delivered with package)
      • sys crontab file (delivered with package)
    • 7a. Create a Set Installation Package
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • setinfo file
      • prototype file
      • preinstall script file
      • request script file
    • 7b. Split one set into two
      • Techniques
      • Approach
      • Original setinfo file
      • New setinfo file for SIP 1
      • New setinfo file for SIP 2
      • Original prototype file
      • New prototype file for SIP 1
      • New prototype file for SIP 2
• Bibliography
  • Books
  • Periodicals
  • SCO resources
• Index