nld Manual

nld Manual—528272-001
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Glossary
absolute pathname. An HP NonStop™ Open System Services (OSS) 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 command 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 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. In the HP NonStop™ Open System Services (OSS)
environment, the directory from which relative pathnames are resolved. A process
always has a current working directory.
DEFINE. An HP Tandem Advanced Command Language (TACL) command that you can
use to specify a named set of attributes and values to pass to a process. See map
DEFINE.
directory. A type of HP NonStop™ Open System Services (OSS) special file that contains
directory entries, which associate names with files. No two directory entries in the
same directory have the same name.
directory entry. In the HP NonStop™ Open System Services (OSS) file system, an object
that associates a filename with a file. Several directory entries can associate names
with the same file. See also link.
DLL. See dynamic-link library (DLL).