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Porting IRIX^® Applications to SGI^® Altix^® Platforms: SGI ProPack^™ for Linux^®

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Table of Contents

About This Guide

Related Publications
Obtaining Publications
Conventions
Reader Comments

1. Porting Overview

2. Endian Order

A Case of Endianness
Examples

3. 64-bit ABI Porting Issues

32-bit and 64-bit Differences
Writing C Code Portable to 64-Bit Platforms
Writing Fortran Code Portable to 64-Bit Platforms
Examples of Fortran Portability Issues

4. Compiler and Development Tools

Development Tool Chain
Editors
Compilers
Standards Support
Compiler Options
Compiler Directives
Assemblers
Linker

5. Additional Development Tools

Archiver and Other Object file Tools
Debuggers
Timing
Performance Analysis Tools

6. Message Passing on IRIX and Linux

Compiling MPI Programs on Linux
SHMEM Program Launch
NUMA Placement
dplace Command
Performance Tuning Tools
MPT Release Documentation
Performance Impact of Partitioning
Software Modules Differences
System-Specific MPT Features

7. POSIX Threads (pthreads) Implementations

Implementation Differences
Differences in Cancellation
Differences in Mutex Implementations
Condition Variables
Read-Write Locks
Signals
Scheduling Pthreads
Environment Variables
Summary of Differences in Supported Features

8. Miscellaneous Porting Concerns

I/O Controls
ATT Korn Shell vs. Public Domain Korn Shell
Serial Port Devices
Security

9. Frequently Asked Questions

A. Application Programming Interface (API) Differences: libc

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