Object Code Accelerator Manual

Glossary
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MIPS RISC word
Accelerator-generated MIPS RISC instructions are produced by accelerating TNS
object code. Native-compiled MIPS RISC instructions are produced by compiling
source code with a TNS/R native compiler.
MIPS RISC word. An instruction-set-defined unit of memory. A MIPS RISC word is 4 bytes
(32 bits) wide, beginning on any 4-byte boundary in memory. Contrast with TNS word
and word. See also Intel® Itanium® word.
millicode. RISC instructions that implement various TNS low-level functions such as
exception handling, real-time translation routines, and library routines that implement
the TNS instruction set. Millicode is functionally equivalent to TNS microcode.
multibyte character set. A means for identifying written characters for national languages
that require more than one byte to represent a single character.
multiprocessing. Two or more processes running in parallel by executing on different
processing modules.
multithreaded process. A process that performs more than one operation concurrently.
Contrast with single-threaded process.
named process. A process to which a process name was assigned when the process was
created. Contrast with unnamed process.
native. An adjective that can modify object code, object file, process, procedure, and mode
of process execution. Native object files contain native object code, which directly uses
MIPS or Intel® Itanium® instructions and the corresponding conventions for register
handling and procedure calls. Native processes are those created by executing native
object files. Native procedures are units of native object code. Native mode execution
is the state of the process when it is executing native procedures.
native mode. See TNS/R native mode and TNS/E native mode.
native-mode code. Object code that has been compiled with TNS/R native compilers to run
on TNS/R systems or with TNS/E native compilers to run on TNS/E systems.
native-mode library. A native-compiled loadfile associated with one or more other native-
compiled loadfiles. A native mode process can have any number of associated native-
mode libraries. See also TNS library and TNS/E library.
native-mode source code. High-level language routines that can be compiled with TNS/E
native compilers. These two sets of compilers accept the same language dialects.
native object code. See TNS/R native object code
and TNS/E native object code.
native object file. See TNS/R native object file
and TNS/E native object file.
native process. SeeTNS/R native process and TNS/E native process.