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Glossary of terms used
rink documentation, (c) Ben Summers 1995
Segment A chunk of code which is loaded into the main program, and is
linked into the main program when it is loaded.
Links file A compact file listing the necessary links which the rink run
time system needs to perform when it loads the segement.
Parent The main program which calls the loaded segments.
Header description file
The file which describes the header a segment gets. You should
only need one of these for all the segments.
named function
A function withing the segment which has a name attached to it
rather than being accessed by a number.
rink The title of this system.
rink run time system
The code linked into the parent to load and unload segments
and to provide pointers to segment functions.
rink The program which links AOF files to produce segments and
links files.
rinkptr The program which creates an AOF file to create the pointer
block and outputs a map of this for rink.
extractsym A program to extract symbols from AOF and ALF (library) files
to help produce pointer blocks maps.
pointer block
A block of pointers to symbols in the main program created
by rinkptr from a pointer block map. This block tells the
run time system where all the functions are in your program
so it can link to them.