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

[Dan Cross]

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.

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.