General Programming Concepts:
Writing and Debugging Programs

Related Information

For further information on this topic, see the following:

• AIX 5L Version 5.2 Performance Management Guide has a section on Virtual Memory Manager (VMM) which describes the VMM and its page-stealing algorithms in detail.
• Memory Kernel Services in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Kernel Extensions and Device Support Programming Concepts describes the various kernel extensions available to manipulate kernel memory.
• Paging Space Overview in AIX 5L Version 5.2 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices

Subroutine References

• The dlclose subroutine, dlopen subroutine, _end, _etext or _edata identifier, exec subroutine, exit subroutine, ftok subroutine, fsync subroutine, load subroutine, loadquery subroutine, loadbind subroutine, malloc, free, realloc, calloc, mallopt, mallinfo, or alloca subroutine, monitor subroutine, moncontrol subroutine, monstartup subroutine in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Base Operating System and Extensions Volume 1.
• shmat subroutine, shmctl subroutine, shmdt subroutine, shmget subroutine, unload subroutine in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Technical Reference: Base Operating System and Extensions Volume 2.

Commands Refernces

The ar command, as command, cc command in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Commands Reference, Volume 1.

The dump command, ipcs command in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Commands Reference, Volume 2.

The ipcrm command, ld command in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Commands Reference, Volume 3.

The pagesize command,rtl_enable command, update command in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Commands Reference, Volume 5.

The vmstat command in AIX 5L Version 5.2 Commands Reference, Volume 6.

Files References

The XCOFF object (a.out) file format.