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Cover Design By Sarah Bolles, Sarah Bolles Design, and Dany Galgani, SGI Technical Publications.
New Features in This Manual
Information regarding the use of lint-style comments in macros has been added to
Appendix B, "lint-style Comments", page 167.
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Record of Revision
Version
Description
7.3
April 1999
This document has been updated to support the MIPSpro 7.3
release.
140
September 2002
This document has been updated to support the MIPSpro 7.4
release which runs on IRIX operating systems version 6.5 and later.
150
June 2003
This document has been updated to support the MIPSpro 7.4.1m
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