Barcode Reader User Manual

Glossary

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Glossary

Appendix A

Glossary

asm470: The name of the command that invokes the assembler for the

TMS470R1x.

assembler: A software program that creates a machine-language program

from a source file that contains assembly language instructions, direc-

tives, and macro definitions. The assembler substitutes absolute opera-

tion codes for symbolic operation codes and absolute or relocatable

addresses for symbolic addresses.

C compiler: A software program that translates C source statements into

assembly language source statements.

code generator: A compiler tool that takes the file produced by the parser

or the optimizer and produces an assembly language source file.

COFF: Common object file format. A binary object file format that promotes

modular programming by supporting the concept of

sections

. All COFF

sections are independently relocatable in memory space; you can place

any section into any allocated block of target memory.

cl470: The name of the command that invokes the compiler shell program

for the TMS470R1x. (The second character in the shell name is a lower-

case L.)

DOS/4G: The base version for DOS/4GW. You may occasionally see this

term in an error message. If so, see Appendix A,

Troubleshooting DOS

Systems

, for the appropriate action.

Appendix B