August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
13h 37m
English
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GLOSSARY
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ABI Application binary interface
Abstract base class A class that has at least one abstract method (member function).
Abstract method A method in a class that does not have an implementation. Derived classes are responsible for implementing the abstract method.
Accuracy The correctness of a computation.
Activation record A block of memory holding parameters, local variables, and other memory entities associated with a procedure/function call.
Address bus The portion of the system bus on which memory addresses appear (to access memory and I/O devices).
Address space The range of memory locations available to a single application.
Addressing modes A mechanism for selecting an effective address in memory by combining register values, ...