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Glossary
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import control
import control. The characteristic of a loadfile that determines from which other loadfiles it
can import symbol definitions. The programmer sets a loadfile’s import control at link
time. That import control can be localized, globalized, or semiglobalized. A loadfile’s
import control governs the way the linker and loader construct that loadfile’s searchList
and affects the search only for symbols required by that loadfile.
import library. A file that represents a dynamic-link library (DLL) and can substitute for it as
input to the linker. Import libraries facilitate linking on auxiliary platforms (that is, PCs)
where it is inconvenient to store the actual DLLs.
Inspect region. The region of a TNS object file that contains symbol tables for all blocks
compiled with the SYMBOLS directive. The Inspect region is sometimes called the
SYSnn subvolume .
INSPSNAP. The program that provides a process snapshot file for the Inspect subsystem.
installation subvolume (ISV). A subvolume containing files that perform a specific function
during the installation process, such as organizing documentation in a specific location,
providing the components of the HP NonStop™ operating system image (OSIMAGE),
and containing files that are used after the installation process.
Intel® Itanium® instructions. Register-oriented Itanium instructions that are native to and
directly executed by a TNS/E system. Itanium instructions do not execute on TNS and
TNS/R systems. Contrast with TNS instructions and MIPS RISC instructions .
TNS Object Code Accelerator (OCA) produces Itanium instructions to accelerate TNS
object code. A TNS/E native compiler produces native-compiled Itanium instructions
when it compiles source code.
Intel® Itanium® instruction region. The region of a TNS object file that contains Itanium
instructions and the tables necessary to execute the instructions in accelerated mode
on a TNS/E system. The Object Code Accelerator (OCA) creates this region and writes
it into the TNS object file. A TNS object file that contains an Itanium instruction region
can execute in accelerated mode on TNS/E systems. Contrast with
MIPS region of a
TNS object file .
Intel® Itanium® instruction region loading. Mapping the Itanium instructions and any
tables necessary at runtime into memory from the Itanium instruction region of a TNS
object file, performed when deemed necessary by the TNS emulation software on a
TNS/E system.
Intel® Itanium® word. An instruction-set-defined unit of memory. An Itanium word is 4
bytes (32 bits) wide, beginning on any 4-byte boundary in memory. Contrast with TNS
word and word . See also MIPS RISC word .
interpreted mode. See TNS interpreted mode .
instance. A particular case of a class of items or objects. For example, a process is defined
as one instance of the execution of a program. Multiple processes might be executing