GT.M Programmer's Guide

In Chapter 6: “Commands”, corrected the definitions of LKS and LKF mnemonics.

In Chapter 8: “Intrinsic Special Variables”, added the descriptions of $ZREALSTOR, $ZALLOCSTOR, and $ZUSEDSTOR.

In Chapter 7: “Functions”, added the description of $ZSIGPROC().

In Chapter 5: “General Language Features of M”, corrected the reference to the gtm_tprestart_log_delta and gtm_tprestart_log_first environment variables.

In Chapter 7: “Functions”, removed an incorrect reference to "M" as a formatting code of $FNUMBER(), corrected the example of $ZBITSTR(), and corrected the description of SPSIZE and BREAKMSG argument keywords of $VIEW().

In Chapter 8: “Intrinsic Special Variables”, improved the description of $ZTRAP, added an example of $ZCMDLINE, and added Linux, Solaris, and z/OS examples of creating a shared library from object (.o) files.

In Chapter 11: “Integrating External Routines”, corrected the type of the space-needed parameter of the gtm_malloc() function.

In Chapter 5: “General Language Features of M”, improved the description of “TP Characteristics” and added the guidelines for implementing Web Services safely on GT.M.

In Chapter 6: “Commands”, added a note to highlight PIPE devices as an alternative for ZSYSTEM and improved the description of VIEW "JNLFLUSH" and VIEW "JNLWAIT".

In Chapter 2: “GT.M Language Extensions” and under the “Extensions for Unicode™ support ” section, added information on Unicode Byte Order Marker (BOM) and FILTER deviceparameter.

In Chapter 9: “Input/Output Processing”, added the “Line Terminators ” section. In “ FIFO Characteristics” and “PIPE Characteristics”, added information about gtm_non_blocked_write_retries.

In Chapter 4: “Operating and Debugging in Direct Mode”, updated Line Editing for V5.5-000.

In Chapter 6: “Commands”, updated the descriptions of ZMESSAGE, TROLLBACK, DO, VIEW "TRACE", and VIEW "[NO]FULL_BOOL[EAN][WARN] for V5.5-000, added the description of VIEW "GVDUPSETNOOP", removed the argument postconditional from the syntax of the ZSYSTEM command, and improved the description of ZLINK.

In Chapter 7: “Functions”, corrected an example of $ZSEARCH() and improved the description of $STACK().

In Chapter 8: “Intrinsic Special Variables”, added the description of $ZONLNRLBK.

In Chapter 10: “Utility Routines”, added the description of %RANDSTR.

In Chapter 14: “Triggers”, changed TRIGTLVLZERO to TRIGTCOMMIT.

In “Pre-allocation of Output Parameters”, specified that output-only gtm_string_t * and char * parameters require pre-allocation.

In “ FIFO Characteristics”, corrected the description of FIFO behavior with WRITEs.