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Appendix A
Glossary
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ANSI:
See American National Standards Institute.
absolute address:
An address that is permanently assigned to a memory
location.
aliasing:
The ability for a single object to be accessed in more than one way,
such as when two pointers point to the same object. It can disrupt opti-
mization because any indirect reference could refer to any other object.
allocation:
A process in which the linker calculates the final memory
addresses of output sections.
American National Standards Institute (ANSI):
An organization that es-
tablishes standards voluntarily followed by industries.
archive library:
A collection of individual files grouped into a single file by
the archiver.
archiver:
A software program that collects several individual files into a
single file called an archive library. With the archiver you can add, delete,
extract, or replace members of the archive library.
assembler:
A software program that creates a machine-language program
from a source file that contains assembly language instructions, direc-
tives, and macro directives. The assembler substitutes absolute opera-
tion codes for symbolic operation codes and absolute or relocatable
addresses for symbolic addresses.
assignment statement:
A statement that initializes a variable with a value.
autoinitialization:
The process of initializing global C variables (contained
in the .cinit section) before program execution begins.
autoinitialization at runtime:
An autoinitialization method used by the link-
er when linking C code. The linker uses this method when you invoke the
linker with the
−
c option. The linker loads the .cinit section of data tables
into memory, and variables are initialized at runtime.
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