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- Glossary of terms used
- rink documentation, (c) Ben Summers 1995
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- Segment A chunk of code which is loaded into the main program, and is
- linked into the main program when it is loaded.
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- Links file A compact file listing the necessary links which the rink run
- time system needs to perform when it loads the segement.
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- Parent The main program which calls the loaded segments.
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- Header description file
- The file which describes the header a segment gets. You should
- only need one of these for all the segments.
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- named function
- A function withing the segment which has a name attached to it
- rather than being accessed by a number.
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- rink The title of this system.
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- rink run time system
- The code linked into the parent to load and unload segments
- and to provide pointers to segment functions.
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- rink The program which links AOF files to produce segments and
- links files.
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- rinkptr The program which creates an AOF file to create the pointer
- block and outputs a map of this for rink.
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- extractsym A program to extract symbols from AOF and ALF (library) files
- to help produce pointer blocks maps.
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- pointer block
- A block of pointers to symbols in the main program created
- by rinkptr from a pointer block map. This block tells the
- run time system where all the functions are in your program
- so it can link to them.
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