NonStop System Glossary

TNS/E native object file
An object file created by a TNS/E native compiler that contains 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 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 interpretation or after acceleration. TNS/R systems
include all HP systems that use NSR-x processors. Contrast with TNS and TNS/E.
TNS/R library
A TNS/R native-mode library. For a PIC-compiled application, TNS/R libraries can be dynamic-link
libraries (DLLs) or hybridized native shared runtime libraries (SRLs). For an application that is not
PIC compiled, TNS/R libraries can only be native SRLs.
TNS/R native C compiler
The C compiler that generates TNS/R object files. Contrast with TNS C compiler and TNS/E native
C compiler.
TNS/R native compiler
A compiler in the TNS/R development environment that generates TNS/R native object code,
following the TNS/R native-mode conventions for memory, stack, 32-bit registers, and call linkage.
The TNS/R native C compiler is an example of such a compiler. Contrast with TNS compiler and
TNS/E native compiler.
TNS/R native mode
The primary execution environment on a TNS/R system, in which native-compiled MIPS object
code executes, following TNS/R 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/E native mode.
TNS/R native object code
The MIPS RISC instructions that result from processing program source code with a TNS/R native
compiler. TNS/R native object code executes only on TNS/R systems, not on TNS systems or
TNS/E systems.
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