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Undefined External Reference Excl. [Unix] A Message From Unix's Linker.
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undefined external reference excl.
[Unix] A message from
Unix's linker. Used in speech to flag loose ends or dangling
references in an argument or discussion.
Related:
undefined external reference: excl. [UNIX] A message from UNIX's linker.
Used in speech to flag loose ends or dangling references in an argument or discussion....
lint [from Unix's lint(1), named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
hello world interj. 1. The canonical minimal test message in the C/Unix universe.
2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message....
hello, world: interj. 1. The canonical minimal test message in the C/UNIX universe.
2. Any of the minimal programs that emit this message....
UNIX should be used as an adjective. -- AT&T
him n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property.
For example, the PDP-11 Unix linker, in split I&...
him: n. A small piece of data inserted in order to achieve a desired memory alignment or other addressing property.
For example, the PDP-11 UNIX linker, in split I&D (instructions and data) mode, inserts a two-byte shim at location 0 in data space so that no data object will have an address of 0 (and be confused with the C null pointer)....
ping: [from the TCP/IP acronym `Packet INternet Groper', prob.
originally contrived to match the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] n....