MIPS ABI
CONFORMANCE GUIDE
VERSION 1.2

Table of Contents

Overview
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND PACKAGING
Installation
Devices


LOW-LEVEL SYSTEM INFORMATION

Low-Level System Information


OBJECT FILES

Relocation
Link Editing
Object Files
Debugging
Compiler and Linker Options


PROGRAM LOADING AND DYNAMIC LINKING

Dynamic Linking


LIBRARIES

Introduction
System Library
C Library
Runtime Dynamic Linking Library
Networking Services Library
Mutual Exclusion Library
Socket Library
ABI Library
X Window System Library
Math Library
OSF/Motif Library
General-Purpose Library
BSD Emulation Library


FORMATS AND PROTOCOLS

ABI Version Identification


SYSTEM COMMANDS

EXECUTION ENVIRONMENT

WINDOWING AND TERMINAL INTERFACES

DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

FUTURE DIRECTIONS A

INDEX

FIGURES

Figure 4-1 Expanded GOT Relocation Types
Figure 5-1 Initialization Ordering Example
Figure 6-1 Shared Library Names
Figure 6-2 libc Additional Required Entry Points
Figure 6-3 libc Contents, Names without Synonyms
Figure 6-4 libc Contents, Names with Synonyms
Figure 6-5 libc Contents, Names with Synonyms, previously listed without Synonyms
Figure 6-6 Header File:
Figure 6-7 Additions to Header File:
Figure 6-8 Example Tape Layout
Figure 6-9 Tape Positioning after ioctl Operations
Figure 6-10 Tape Positioning after close for device opened with no-rewind access
Figure 6-11 libdl Contents
Figure 6-12 libnsl Contents, Additional Required Entry Points
Figure 6-13 libnsl Contents, Global External Data Symbols
Figure 6-14 libmutex Contents
Figure 6-15 Header File: <abi_mutex.h>
Figure 6-16 libsocket Contents
Figure 6-17 Header File: <net/if.h>
Figure 6-18 Header File: <net/if_arp.h>
Figure 6-19 Header File: <netinet/if_ether.h>
Figure 6-20 Header File: <netinet/in.h>
Figure 6-21 Header File: <netinet/tcp.h>
Figure 6-22 Header File: <sys/ioctl.h>
Figure 6-23 Header File: <netdb.h>
Figure 6-24 Header File: <net/route.h>
Figure 6-25 Header File: <sys/socket.h>
Figure 6-26 Header File: <sys/types.h>
Figure 6-27 Header File: <sys/un.h>
Figure 6-28 libabi Contents
Figure 6-29 Header File: aio.h
Figure 6-30 Header File: signal.h
Figure 6-31 Header File: limits.h
Figure 6-32 Header File: errno.h
Figure 6-33 Header File: unistd.h
Figure 6-34 libX Contents
Figure 6-35 libX Contents, Global External Data Symbols
Figure 6-36 X11R5 Include Files
Figure 6-37 X11R5 X Toolkit Intrinsics Include Files
Figure 6-38 Required libm Functions
Figure 6-39 OSF/Motif 1.2 Include Files
Figure 6-40 libgen Contents
Figure 6-41 libucb Contents

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