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Appendix A
Glossary
A
asm470: The name of the command that invokes the assembler for the
TMS470R1x.
assembler: A software program that creates a machine-language program
from a source file that contains assembly language instructions, direc-
tives, and macro definitions. The assembler substitutes absolute opera-
tion codes for symbolic operation codes and absolute or relocatable
addresses for symbolic addresses.
C
C compiler: A software program that translates C source statements into
assembly language source statements.
code generator: A compiler tool that takes the file produced by the parser
or the optimizer and produces an assembly language source file.
COFF: Common object file format. A binary object file format that promotes
modular programming by supporting the concept of
sections
. All COFF
sections are independently relocatable in memory space; you can place
any section into any allocated block of target memory.
cl470: The name of the command that invokes the compiler shell program
for the TMS470R1x. (The second character in the shell name is a lower-
case L.)
D
DOS/4G: The base version for DOS/4GW. You may occasionally see this
term in an error message. If so, see Appendix A,
Troubleshooting DOS
Systems
, for the appropriate action.
Appendix B