Release notes for Quantify version 2002a.06.00 HP-UX
Contents
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o Changes from previous releases
o Supported systems
o Restrictions and known issues
New In This Release
===================
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
- Support for aCC 3.31 and 3.33 compiler
- Support for ld/dld version 11.30
- Support for dlopen, dlclose, dlsym, dlget calls in 32-bit
applications. You can make calls to the above dynamic library
routines in 32-bit applications, and Quantify will make sure
those libraries are instrumented as well for performance
measurement.
- Two new options -lib-path-length and -replace-path are added
to Quantify. These options help one to relocate the cache.
For information on the options and how to move the cache,
please refer to the online documentation.
- Quantify_home has been re-organized so that
32-bit and 64-bit components reside in the
same directory. There is no longer a need to
link 32 and 64 bit homes, or put them in your
path.
Please see the section "Restrictions and Known Issues"
for more details.
New in Quantify 2002.05.00
=========================
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
- Support for gcc 2.95.2 and 2.95.3 compilers.
- Support for aCC 3.27 and 3.30 compilers.
- This release supports the LD_PRELOAD environment variable. This
feature is available on HP-UX 11.00, AR0301(DART52) or later
releases (ld and linker tools patch PHSS_22478). Please see the
section "Restrictions and Known Issues" for known issues with
LD_PRELOAD usage.
New In Quantify 2001a.04.00
===========================
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
- HTML-based online help system. See the "HTML Help" topic in the
Restrictions and Known Issues section.
- New product versioning system. This release is the successor of:
Quantify 5.2 for HP-UX
- This release supports HP-UX 11.11.
- This release does not support HP-UX 10.01 and 10.10.
- This release supports objdebug style debug information generated by
cc and aCC compilers. This feature is supported on HP-UX versions
11.00 and higher only. With the +objdebug option to the compiler,
extra debug information is placed into each object file to help
the debugger locate the object file and to quickly find global types
and constants.
New in Quantify 5.2
===================
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
- This release uses a new FlexLm based licensing. Read the new installation
guide before installing the product. Use rs_install instead of
pure_install for the installation.
- This is the last release to support HP-UX 10.01 and HP-UX 10.10.
New In Quantify 5.1
===================
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
- HP-UX 9.x is no longer supported.
- Support for Cygnus 98r2 compilers
New In Quantify 5.0.1
=====================
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
- This is the last release to support HP-UX 9.x. Apex Ada is no longer
supported.
New in Quantify 5.0
===================
- This version supports "wide mode" applications on HP-UX 11.00:
programs using 64-bit pointers, compiled with the option +DA2.0W.
See below for important notes about 64-bit development.
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
New in Quantify 4.4
===================
- Bug fixes and compatibility with OS patches.
- New product installation and licensing. Supports FLEXlm based
licensing when installed as part of RSDSU.
New in Quantify 4.3
===================
- Support for Apex 3.0.0 Ada and C++ on Solaris and HP-UX.
- bug fixes
New in Quantify 4.2
===================
- bug fixes
New in Quantify 3.1.1
=====================
- Updated Japanese translations
This release contains improvements in the Japanese translations for the
Online Help.
New in Quantify 3.1
===================
Miscellaneous
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- HP-UX 10.30 support
This release supports HP-UX 10.30, including kernel threads.
- Support for PA-RISC 2.0
This release supports PA-RISC 2.0 object files.
- Extended compiler support
This release supports the HP aCC compiler.
- Purela query script
This release contains a new utility, purela_show, which generates
simplified reports from license and usage data maintained in a
standard or aggregate PureLA database.
New in Quantify 3.0
===================
Support for HP-UX 10.20
-----------------------
Note: code compiled specifically for the PA2.0 processor is not
supported. Such code will be generated by default on PA2.0 systems. Use the compiler option +DA1.1 to disable
this.
Support for the HP ANSI C++ compiler "aCC"
------------------------------------------
Quantify supports the aCC compiler from HP. There is a patch to
get from HP to be sure this will work. See the "Restrictions and
Known Issues" section for more details.
Pure License Advisor (PureLA)
-----------------------------
The "Simple License" advisor, PureLA, offers a number of new features
to further simplify the administration of licenses to Rational
Software products. See the Installation Guide for more details.
Miscellaneous
-------------
- Updated -use-machine option
When specifying a machine type for which to collect performance data,
the clock rate may now also be specified. This avoids the need
for Quantify to measure the speed of the machine on which it is
currently running. The new syntax is:
-use-machine=:Mhz
e.g. -use-machine=sparcstation_5:60MHz
- Updated HP machine models
Models for the new superscalar HPPA 7300 and 8000 processors have been
incorporated into Quantify, allowing it to more accurately time
your code on these machines.
In addition, Quantify's database of machine configurations has been
updated to include the latest available data from HP.
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Supported systems
=================
Operating system and Hardware
-----------------------------
Quantify has been tested with HP-UX versions 10.20, 11.00 and 11.11
from Hewlett Packard.
Quantify also supports 64-bit wide-mode programs on HPUX 11.00 and 11.11.
A wide-mode program is one that uses 64-bit longs and pointers, built
with the compiler option "+DA2.0W."
Compilers
---------
Quantify has been tested with the following compilers:
- Bundled cc.
- ANSI cc.
- C++.
- aCC versions 3.27, 3.30, 3.31, and 3.33.
- GNU gcc and g++ versions 2.8.1, 2.95.X
- Cygnus GNUpro v.98r2
Threads
-------
Quantify supports these threads packages:
- DCE threads (either libdce or libcma).
- HP-UX kernel threads.
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Restrictions and Known Issues
=============================
Licensing Troubleshooting
-------------------------
- When Quantify is properly installed, a .lm_license_file file is
created in the product home directory to allow Quantify to locate
your licenses even when LM_LICENSE_FILE is not set appropriately
in the user's environment. If you get a message such as:
Error: Unable to open /product_home/.lm_license_file.
Your installation is incomplete. Did you run rs_install? ...
Check your product home directory to see if .lm_license_file exists
and is readable by you. If the file does not exist, your installation
is incomplete. You may need to re-run rs_install or license_setup.
If the permissions are incorrect, change them so that the file is
readable by all expected users of Quantify.
- If you manually change the location of your licenses (e.g. without
using license_setup), the .lm_license_file will not be updated and
you will not be able to checkout a license unless you set the env
var LM_LICENSE_FILE to point to the new location. You should always
use license_setup to make changes to your licenses.
- Be sure you install the products that correspond to your license(s).
Do not install PurifyPlus unless you have a PurifyPlus license. To
check your license, locate the "INCREMENT" line(s) in your license
file (*.dat) or license update file (*.upd). The license feature name
is the first word on the line after "INCREMENT". For example:
INCREMENT PurifyPlusUNIX rational 5.0 10-jan-2001 1 1234556789012
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
If you do not see "PurifyPlusUNIX" on the increment line, you do not
have a PurifyPlus license and should not install PurifyPlus.
HTML Help
---------
As of version 2001a.04.00, the online help has been replaced by a more
robust HTML based help system. The new online help incorporates all the
information from the product user manual.
The following restrictions and notes apply to using the HTML help system:
- The only supported browser for the HTML based help system is
Netscape Navigator, versions 4.7.x. The HTML based help system
does not work with pre 4.7 versions or with 6.x versions.
- You may view the help in stand-alone mode by pointing your browser to
the following:
product_home/UI/html/qunix.htm
(Where "product_home" is the installation location of Quantify. e.g. the
result of the -printhomedir option.)
- Netscape must be on your path when you run your instrumented program.
Your path is used to locate the browser.
- The first time you request help from a viewer, a new netscape session
will be started, even if you already have netscape running. This session
will be re-used by subsequent help requests unless you re-use the
launched browser for another purpose. If you close the browser, a new
browser will be launched upon the next help request.
- The new help system uses Javascript. On some platforms, the MOZILLA_HOME
environment variable must be set in order for Javascript based web pages
to work properly. If you experience Java related problems with the help:
Make sure your netscape installation directory is on your path and that
MOZILLA_HOME is either not set at all (we will set it for you) or is set to
the same installation directory.
If MOZILLA_HOME is set but does not point to the same netscape installation
as the netscape on your path, the help may not work correctly.
If MOZILLA_HOME is not set at all, Quantify will attempt to set it when
we start netscape. But we will be unable to set it correctly if the
netscape found on your path does not resolve to an actual installation
directory. For example, if netscape actually references a wrapper script
in /usr/local/bin. In this case, you will need to set MOZILLA_HOME
explicitly.
See the Netscape release notes for more information on MOZILLA_HOME.
- Use the Help->Help Topics menu item to access the top level of the
help system. In Quantify, you can also access the top level of the
help system using the Help button on the initial Quantify Control
Panel.
- Context sensitive help is available on leaf menu items and on buttons
ONLY. For information about a window, use the Help->On Window menu item.
- PDF versions of the Quantify Quick Reference card is available in the
doc/pdf section of your installation, if you have installed PDF
documentation. Otherwise, see the corresponding area of your
installation CD.
64-bit Development
----------------------------
- Quantify supports both 32-bit and 64-bit application development, and
will select the correct mode of operation automatically based on inputs.
The product banner will report the mode of operation during instrumentation
and at runtime. However, the "-version" option will always report 32-bit
mode; the product version is the same for both modes.
- Starting in version 2002a.06.00, the product home directory has been
reorganized to support both 32 and 64-bit development.
This organization should be transparent for all 32-bit users and most
64-bit users. However, the location of the Quantify stubs library is
different for 64-bit applications:
32-bit libraries have been moved to the lib32 sub-directory:
quantifyhome/lib32/quantify_stubs.a
quantifyhome/lib32/libquantify_stubs.a
To preserve backward compatibility, the following links are provided
in quantifyhome:
quantifyhome/quantify_stubs.a
quantifyhome/libquantify_stubs.a
32-bit API users are encouraged to use the libraries from the lib32
sub-directory, and not from quantifyhome.
64-bit API users must link against the equivalent library in the
lib64 sub-directory:
quantifyhome/lib64/quantify_stubs.a
quantifyhome/lib64/libquantify_stubs.a
The API header file has not moved and is shared for both development
modes.
General
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- Quantify does not present accurate line-by-line performance data in
the annotated source window if the code is compiled with both debug
and optimization flags.
- If Quantify is run in "/tmp" or "/usr/tmp" or "/var/tmp" the generated
instrumented *.o files are deleted in these directories.
So please do not use commands like :
Quantify cc -nolink ld file.o
in "/tmp" or "/usr/tmp" or "/var/tmp" .
However there is a work-around for this , You can use the option "-save-tmp-files"
to tell Quantify not to delete the generated objects. So using:
Quantify -save-tmp-files cc -nolink ld file.o
will generate the instrumented file_pure_*.o in
"/tmp" or "/usr/tmp" or "/var/tmp".
Otherwise you can use -always-use-cache-dir so that the generated file_pure*.o
is generated in cache-dir where it is not deleted
(Note: if cache-directory is installed in "/tmp","/usr/tmp","/var/tmp" the
generated *_pure_*.o in cache are not deleted , so you can have the
cache-directory safely in "/tmp","/usr/tmp","/var/tmp")
- Quantify may not work properly with applications that use Java 1.2
libraries. For details, please search the solutions knowledge base
at:
http://eservice.rational.com/solutions
Or contact Rational Technical Support.
- Archive libraries containing both 32-bit and 64-bit libraries are
not supported. All components of a link must be of the same ELF type.
- gcc/g++ 2.8.1 is supported, but there are known problems with C++ shared
libraries containing gcc/g++ produced objects files containing exception
handling code.
- If you are running your application on a different machine from the one
on which it was built, please ensure that both the machines have the
same operating system. Further, the system libraries on the two machines
should be identical. Otherwise, Quantify might generate a warning message.
For more details on how to build and run on different machines, please
please see solution #5829 at:
http://eservice.rational.com/solutions
Or contact Rational Technical Support and reference Solution #5829.
- The SPARCWorks incremental linker, ild, is automatically disabled by
Quantify due to an incompatibility with file naming conventions.
- Quantify does not have SDK / XDK support, a feature available with
the HPUX Compiler Tool chain from the AR1201 release.
- Quantify does not support filtered libraries.
- Instrumented programs now always use immediate binding for the initial
load of shared libraries and for any dynamic loads using shl_load().
This change was made due to a problem in HP dld patches from June 1998
for HP-UX 11.00 and August 1998 for HP-UX 10.20, which caused the
instrumented application to hang after a call to shl_load(). One known
instance of this problem occurs when you use getservbyname() because
it loads network protocols using shl_load().
Linker and dld patches available after 3/99 don't have this problem.
If the user has an earlier patch, an upgrade is strongly recommended.
- Quantify will not run on short (14-character) file systems.
- Operating system revisions below 10.20 are no longer supported.
- The PA-RISC 1.0 CPU is no longer supported.
- Profile Based Optimization is not supported.
- Applications which link to over 50 large dynamic libraries may
experience reduced startup times by setting the runtime option
-lazy-dld-maps=1.
- For 32-bit applications Quantify does not support shared libraries
built with +init/+fini linker options.
Using LD_PRELOAD
-------------------------------
- For 64-bit applications, use of environment variable LD_PRELOAD
is supported only with instrumented shared libraries. If any of
of the libraries in the LD_PRELOAD environment variable are not
instrumented, the application may crash.
- For 64-bit applications running on HP-UX 11.00 or later systems
with a version of dld which does not support LD_PRELOAD, the
instrumented application will give an error message and quit,
if the environment variable LD_PRELOAD is set and contains any
uninstrumented shared libraries. In this case, unsetting the
environment variable LD_PRELOAD will cause the application to
execute normally.
- For 32-bit applications running on HP-UX 11.00 or later systems
with a version of dld which does not support LD_PRELOAD, the
instrumented application will check the environment variable
LD_PRELOAD and instrument any uninstrumented libraries given in
the LD_PRELOAD value. This instrumentation is harmless and does
not affect the functionality of the program in anyway. To prevent
this unnecessary instrumentation, users should unset the
environment variable LD_PRELOAD before running the application.
- Invoking the viewer with "quantify -view" or "quantify -version"
when LD_PRELOAD is set may sometimes cause the viewer to crash.
This can be overcome by unsetting LD_PRELOAD and then
invoking Quantify.
Using 32-bit vs 64-bit Quantify
-------------------------------
Quantify supports both 32- and 64-bit development. "Wide" mode, or 64-bit
applications are those compiled with the +DA2.0W option - apps using 64-bit
pointers. "Narrow" mode applications are traditional 32-bit programs. Both
are installed on the same file system, but the 64-bit version can only be
used on 64-bit HP-UX 11.x systems.
From version 2002a, the 32-bit and 64-bit products are in one install
directory, so there is no need to put both install directories in your path,
or link install directories. Quantify will auto-select the correct wide or
narrow mode version.
If you attempt to use the 64-bit Quantify using -ptr64 on a non 11.x systems,
execution will fail. It only runs on HP-UX 11.x and later.
- Restrictions on the HP-UX 11.00-wide
(64-bit) version of Quantify:
- Static data checking is not supported.
- Using Quantify with old versions of the HP-UX linker may cause the install
test to fail with an error from the linker saying the "+nodynhash" option
is not recognized. You should obtain a newer linker from HP. This option
is support by 64-bit linkers from 07-Jan-1999 and later.
You may also workaround this problem by include the following in your
PUREOPTIONS environment variable:
-force-no-dynhash=no
The default setting of this option (to "yes") is used to workaround an
HP bug in newer linkers.
- Shared-library "fini" sections (static destructors) do not run.
- shl_unload and dlclose are not implemented. When a program attempts
to unload a shared library, the call will appear to succeed, but the
library will not actually be closed or unloaded. Also, C++ "static
destructors" are not run for the library.
- There is a bug in strlen in the 64-bit libc which causes the example
program "hello.c" to get numerous UMR's instead of only one, as you
might expect.
- Quantify will not report system call time spent inside brk or sbrk.
- When a Japanese locale is specified using the LANG environment variable,
instrumentation of archive libraries may fail with the message:
Error: Child process exited with status = 1.
This is caused by an 'ar' failure in this locale. A workaround is to
unsetenv LANG before instrumenting.
Data Collection
---------------
- Calls to shl_unload() that would cause the library to be unmapped can
cause qv to incorrectly attribute data to the improper functions.
Quantify intercepts calls to shl_unload() and prevents libraries from
being unmapped.
Annotated Source
----------------
- The C compiler (cc) does not include full source file pathnames when a
file is compiled -g. In this case, Quantify first attempts to find
these source files in the directory of the executable. If the source is
not available, Quantify then searches the directories in the value of
the -user-path option. If it is unable to find the source file after
this search, a file dialog is presented for the user to locate the
source file.
User Interface
--------------
- Under most window managers, if a non-explicit focus policy is used,
qv can steal the focus from a non-qv window. Click on the window
title to reestablish proper focus.
- Under twm and tvtwm, Quantify dialogs can be iconified. Once iconified,
however, they cannot be de-iconified and qv will no longer respond. You
should avoid iconifying dialogs under these window managers.
- Under vuewm, the window manager fails to update the border of the window
that has current focus after a menu has been used. Click on a window to
reestablish proper focus. Alternatively, set the following X
resources in your .quantify.Xdefaults file:
vuewm*enforceKeyFocus: False
*OI*wmIgnoresPPosition: True
- Under vuewm, de-iconifying one window from a different window on a
different virtual screen makes a copy of the de-iconified window
on the current virtual screen as well as de-iconifying the window on
the previous virtual screen.
- There is a bug in version 3.3 of the OpenWindows X server shipped
with Tadpole SPARCbooks. The server loses track of a client
application's Graphics Contexts (GCs) after the first time the GCs
are used. As a result, among other things, buttons and menus of client
applications which are supposed to be greyed out don't look greyed out.
You can see the same bug in other X applications such as xterm. In xterm,
use control-middle-click in the xterm window to pop up the xterm
VTOptions pop-up menu. Notice that the menu item "Show Alternate
Screen" (close to the bottom of the menu) is greyed out. Now let go
of the menu (without selecting anything), and popup the menu again.
Note that the same menu item is no longer greyed out.
- The Quantify GUI menus and buttons become inaccessible if either the
NumLock or ScrollLock key is activated. The workaround is to switch
them off, or add the following line(s) to your $HOME/.Xdefaults file.
! Ignore the NumLock and ScrollLock keys on
! mouse buttons
Quantify*ignoreModifierMask: Mod3|Mod2
This second workaround will take effect for a new Quantify viewer after
you restart your X-session or run a command like 'xrdb -merge
$HOME/.Xdefaults'.
Compilers
---------
- FORTRAN routines with multiple entry points are not supported when
compiled -g.
- FORTRAN routines with formatted READ or WRITE statements which use
the END= or ERR= specifiers are not supported when compiled -g.
- The GNU gcc extensions are not tested against Quantify. Most gcc
extensions will probably work fine. Known limitations at present
include problems with nested functions (e.g.: making a pointer to a
nested function and attempting to call through it will not work).
- When using the aCC compiler from HP, time spent in constructors will be
counted at function granularity, even if compiled with the -g option.
Also, time spent in constructors can be assigned to three separate
functions; for a class called MyClass the time might be split among the
functions MyClass::MyClass, MyClass::MyClass%1, and MyClass::MyClass%2.
The true time is the sum of these times.
- C revisions 9.61 through 9.65
- These compilers generate incorrect debugging information for some
functions. Programs compiled using these compilers may not be
debuggable after translation. In this case Quantify may produce a
message beginning "Failure relocating..."
Additionally Quantify may not be able to attach performance
information to specific line numbers in such cases.
HP patch PHSS_4923 corrects this problem.
- Exception handling
g++ 2.7.2 exceptions are not supported.
Debuggers
---------
- XDB & Softdebug
- Use quantifyhome/quantify_xdb to
invoke xdb on an instrumented program.
- An instrumented program receives a signal 18 (death of child) during
its initialization. Place "z 18 sir" in your ~/.xdbrc file to
suppress this warning. Failure to suppress the warning will sometimes
cause xdb to fail.
- XDB, when debugging a program that uses shared libraries, reads
the symbol table from /lib/dld.sl. However, Quantify has changed
your program to use an instrumented version of dld.sl. The
symptom of this mismatch is the message:
Wait...loading shared-library map tables.
xdb panic: Mapped addresses for dld
overlap text segment for dld
There is a simple workaround for this problem and we've implemented
it in the
shell script quantifyhome/quantify_xdb.
Whenever you use xdb on an instrumented program use this script to
invoke xdb.
- Typing ^C while running an instrumented program under xdb requires
caution. There is a high probability that the interrupt will occur
inside the code Quantify has added to your application. If this is the
case, you must single step or set a breakpoint and continue before
you attempt to call any subroutines (the Quantify API is an example).
- The XDB single stepping command, 's' sometimes fails to find the
next source line. When this happens, usually near a subroutine call,
program execution continues until the next breakpoint. The
'S' command is always reliable.
- DDE - Distributed Debugging Environment
- The DDE debugger at release 2.10 has been used with instrumented
programs. The shell
script: quantifyhome/quantify_dde
implements one of the workarounds.
- Instrumented programs get a SIGCHLD signal at program initialization.
One workaround is to just hit "go" when the program stops. The
following commands added to a .dderc file also help:
prop system -on
alias `after_debug delete intercept signal SIGCHLD; \
prop system -off; \
breakpoint -in main -entry -exit; \
go
Old Style Fixups
----------------
Quantify does not support a type of relocation information known as "old
style fixups". These were generated by HP-UX system software before
release 3.0. If Quantify detects old style fixups the message:
Object file has incompatible format
(may be older than HP-UX 3.0)
is generated. We have seen this problem with HP's libsql.a and some of
Oracle's Oracle6 libraries.
There is a simple workaround. Given a problem object module (or modules)
the workaround is to have /bin/ld build a new object module. Suppose
the old object modules are called `foo.o' and `bar.o'. Issuing the command:
% ld -r -o new_foo.o foo.o
% ld -r -o new_bar.o bar.o
or
% ld -r -o foo_and_bar.o foo.o bar.o
would generate a new object module where the old style fixups have been
removed.
In the case of an archive file the following script will create a new
archive given the full pathname of the original:
#!/bin/sh
# Remove old fixups from an archive.
# Supply original .a name as first argument.
cd /tmp
lib=new_`basename $1`
ar x $1
rm -f $lib
for member in `ar t $1` ; do
ld -r -o _$member $member
ar q $lib _$member
rm $member _$member
done
echo Created `pwd`/$lib
Threads
-------
- Customers using unsupported threads packages should contact Rational
Software technical support (support@rational.com) to ensure compatibility.
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----------------
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