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Glossary
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TNS word
TNS word. An instruction-set-defined unit of memory. A TNS word is 2 bytes (16 bits) wide,
beginning on any 2-byte boundary in memory. See also Intel Itanium word, MIPS RISC
word, and word.
TNS/E. Refers to fault-tolerant HP computers that support the HP NonStop operating
system and are based on the Intel Itanium processor. TNS/E systems run the Itanium
instruction set and can run TNS object files by interpretation or after acceleration.
TNS/E systems include all HP NonStop systems that use NSE-x processors. Contrast
with TNS and TNS/R. See also Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC).
TNS/E library. A TNS/E native-mode library. TNS/E libraries are always dynamic-link
libraries (DLLs); there is no native shared run-time library (SRL) format.
TNS/E native C compiler. The C compiler that generates TNS/E object files. Contrast with
TNS C compiler and TNS/R native C compiler.
TNS/E native compiler. A compiler in the TNS/E development environment that generates
TNS/E native object code, following the TNS/E native-mode conventions for memory,
stack, registers, and call linkage. The TNS/E native C compiler is an example of such a
compiler. Contrast with TNS compiler and TNS/R native compiler.
TNS/E native mode. The primary execution environment on a TNS/E system, in which
native-compiled Intel Itanium object code executes, following TNS/E native-mode
compiler conventions for data locations, addressing, stack frames, registers, and call
linkage. Contrast with TNS interpreted mode and TNS accelerated mode. See also
TNS/R native mode.
TNS/E native object code. The Intel Itanium instructions that result from processing
program source code with a TNS/E native compiler. TNS/E native object code
executes only on TNS/E systems, not on TNS systems or TNS/R systems.
TNS/E native object file. An object file created by a TNS/E native compiler that contains
Intel Itanium instructions and other information needed to construct the code spaces
and the initial data for a TNS/E native process.
TNS/E native process. A process initiated by executing a TNS/E native object file. Contrast
with TNS process
and TNS/R native process.
TNS/E native signal. A signal model available to TNS/E native processes in both the
Guardian and Open System Services (OSS) environments. TNS/E native signals are
used for error exception handling.
TNS/E native user library. A user library available to TNS/E native processes in both the
Guardian and Open System Services (OSS) environments. A TNS/E native user library
is implemented as a TNS/E native dynamic-link library (DLL).
TNS/R. Refers to fault-tolerant HP computers that support the HP NonStop operating
system and are based on 32-bit reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) technology.
TNS/R systems run the MIPS-1 RISC instruction set and can run TNS object files by