Typographical conventions

The following table explains the typographical conventions used in this document.

Table 1. Typographical conventions
Typeface Indicates Example
bold Commands, executable names, compiler options and pragma directives. Use the -qmkshrobj compiler option to create a shared object from the generated object files.
italics Parameters or variables whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the user. Italics are also used to introduce new terms. Make sure that you update the size parameter if you return more than the size requested.
monospace Programming keywords and library functions, compiler built-in functions, file and directory names, examples of program code, command strings, or user-defined names. If one or two cases of a switch statement are typically executed much more frequently than other cases, break out those cases by handling them separately before the switch statement.