Appendix A. Glossary
abnormal end
[ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765:2010] Termination of a process prior to completion.
abnormal program termination
See abnormal end.
analyzer
[ISO/IEC 9899:2011] Mechanism that diagnoses coding flaws in software programs.
Note
Analyzers may include static analysis tools, tools within a compiler suite, or tools in other contexts.
asynchronous-safe function [GNU Pth]
A function is asynchronous-safe, or asynchronous-signal safe, if it can be called safely and without side effects from within a signal handler context. That is, it must be able to be interrupted at any point to run linearly out of sequence without causing an inconsistent state. It must also function properly when global data might itself be in an inconsistent ...
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