[TUHS] crt0 -- what's in that name?

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Probably derivative of /etc/brt1 and /etc/brt2. If there's a <lang>rt<digit> convention before that I can't say. If they're going for UNIX-y nomenclature though bootloaders were mboot, tboot, uboot, etc. As an aside, Sega used the nomenclature "icd_blkX" where X is a digit to number 128-byte blocks of their initial loader, icd I presume standing for something like initial code. I feel like I've seen "icd" used elsewhere, but couldn't say where. In any case, I'm sure a lot could be devoted to running down the history of names like crt0, mch, mdec, icd, uboot, and so on. Unfortunately those sorts of trivia haven't bubbled up in my manual studies.

- Matt G.
------- Original Message -------
On Monday, June 12th, 2023 at 11:53 AM, Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> This makes sense since there was B runtime to start, and Dennis was messing with things. No idea but I wonder if that was the impetus for the rename from B to newB to C - when he introduced a new runtime?
> ᐧ
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> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 2:30 PM Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 2:22 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This came up lately in the riscv firmware universe. Someone named early boot bt0, I mentioned crt0, and ... when did that name first appear? I first saw it in v6 but I'm sure it was long before.
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>> The Unix tree shows it in 2nd Edition:
>> https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2/lib/crt0.s
>> That would suggest it was more or less contemporaneous with C itself.
>>
>> - Dan C.
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