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Date: | Mon, 10 Mar 1997 08:28:25 -0500 |
Message-Id: | <199703101328.IAA24666@delorie.com> |
From: | DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> |
To: | ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA |
CC: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
In-reply-to: | <5g0abj$ser@freenet-news.carleton.ca> (ao950@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) |
Subject: | Re: crt0? |
> Whither the name crt0? It seems weird that the acronym for a Cathode Ray > Tube would find its way into the name for anything other than perhaps, a > video driver. The correct acronym expansion, as listed in the Lexicon, is: C RunTime ^ ^ ^ crt0 is the first (zeroth) object linked into a C program, and its purpose is to set up the C runtime environment.
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