nld and noft Manual

nld and noft Manual—520384-003
Glossary-1
Glossary
absolute pathname. A pathname that begins with a slash (/) character and is resolved
beginning with the root directory. Compare to relative pathname.
ANSI. American National Standards Institute,
ar utility. A utility that creates and maintains archives of files for use by nld.
archive file. A file that contains a collection of object files. The ar utility creates archive
files.
binding. The operation of examining, collecting, linking, and modifying code and data
blocks from one or more object files to produce a target object file.
CISC. See complex instruction-set computing (CISC).
command stream. A sequence of tokens, separated by blanks, that control the nld utility.
The command stream can come from the command line, the standard input file, or an
obey file.
complex instruction-set computing (CISC). A processor architecture based on a large
instruction set, characterized by numerous addressing modes, multicycle machine
instructions, and many special-purpose instructions. Compare to reduced instruction-
set computing (RISC).
compilation unit. A compilation unit is a source file plus source text that is read from other
files by C and C++ #include directives, by COBOL SOURCE directives and COPY
statements, and by pTAL SOURCE directives, which together compose a single input
to the compiler. A compiler generates one relinkable code file for each compilation unit.
current working directory. The directory from which relative pathnames are resolved. A
process always has a current working directory.
DLL. See dynamic-link library (DLL)
.
DEFINE. A named set of attributes and associated values in the Guardian environment. See
map DEFINE
.
directory . A type of OSS special file that contains entries that name links to other files.
dynamic-link library (DLL). A PIC (position-independent code) library of functions or data
for use by other PIC loadfiles. In UNIX, this type of file is called a “shared object file” or
“dynamic shared object” (DSO).
edit file. A file in a format defined by the Edit product.
file. An object to which data can be written and/or from which data can be read. A file has
attributes such as access permissions and a file type.