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

ron minnich rminnich at gmail.com
Wed Jun 14 02:37:26 AEST 2023


thanks all. In 1976, at udel, we thought it meant c runtime startoff and
that seems to be a reasonable interpretation.

Kind of nice that a very new system, oreboot, will have a bt0 performing
about the same function :-)

On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 10:28 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, Clem Cole wrote:
>
> > > I've always thought of it as "C run time stage 0".
> >
> > crt - C RunTme.   I always heard it expressed as C  runtime SYSTEM or
> > START
>
> Ah; well, I was almost right :-)  It's been a while since I was using
> Ed 5 where I first saw that comment...
>
> -- Dave
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