TNS/R Native Application Migration Guide

Glossary
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TNS/R native user library
TNS/R native user library. A user library available to TNS/R native processes in the
Guardian and OSS environments. A TNS/R native user library is implemented as a
special private TNS/R native SRL.
Transaction Application Language (TAL). A systems programming language with many
features specific to stack-oriented TNS systems.
user library. An object file that the operating system links to a program file at run time. A
program can have only one user library. See also TNS user library and TNS/R native
user library.
word. An instruction-set-defined unit of memory that corresponds to the width of registers
and to the most common and efficient size of memory operations. A TNS word is 2
bytes (16 bits) wide, beginning on any 2-byte boundary in memory. A RISC word is 4
bytes (32 bits) wide, beginning on any 4-byte boundary in memory.