The C++ libraries, that is, the Rogue Wave and C++ runtime libraries, now support C++ exceptions. The C++ libraries continue to support applications that do not require exceptions support.

The C library now supports all of the wchar.h function, except file I/O, and the c99 hexadecimal floating-point support in printf and scanf.

A new region tables format has been introduced to support compression algorithms. This new format no longer contains ZISection$$Table.