[COFF] Weedhopper? (was: crt0 -- what's in that name?)

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Tue Jun 13 13:26:24 AEST 2023


On Jun 12, 2023, at 8:05 PM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 7:57 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog at lemis.com <mailto:grog at lemis.com>> wrote:
>> On Monday, 12 June 2023 at 18:39:32 -0400, Clem Cole wrote:
>> > On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 5:39 PM G. Branden Robinson <g.branden.robinson at gmail.com <mailto:g.branden.robinson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> It's an ill wind that blows a Fortran runtime using the same convention.
>> >
>> > Be careful there, weedhopper ...
>> 
>> Now there's a word I have never heard before.  Neither have my
>> dictionaries, and Google gets sidetracked.  What's the meaning and the
>> background?

You missed your chance to say "Patience, Young Grasshopper!"

[I wonder if "Patience you must have, Young Padawan" has a connection to the above. Yoda must have watched Kung Fu!]
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