Document conventions

Highlighting conventions

This guide uses the following highlighting conventions:

Bold
Identifies commands, keywords, file, directory, and path names, environment variables, executable names, and other items whose names are predefined by the system.

Italics
Identify parameters whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the programmer. Italics are also used for the first mention of new terms.

Monospace
Identifies examples of program code.

Examples are intended to be instructional and do not attempt to minimize run time, conserve storage, or check for errors. The examples do not demonstrate all of the possible uses of language constructs. Some examples are only code fragments and will not compile without additional code.

Icons

In general, this guide documents XL C/C++ functionality as it has been implemented on the Linux platform. However, where issues are discussed that affect portability to other platforms, the following icons are used:


AIX
Indicates the functionality supported on the AIX(R) platform.


Linux
Indicates the functionality supported on the Linux platform.


Mac OS X
Indicates the functionality supported on the Mac OS X platform.


C++
Indicates a feature that is supported only in the C++ language.


C
Indicates a feature that is supported only in the C language.
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