At 2023-06-12T17:31:20-0400, Clem Cole wrote:
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 4:17 PM Dave Horsfall
<dave(a)horsfall.org> wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, Dan Cross wrote:
The Unix tree shows it in 2nd Edition:
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V2/lib/crt0.s
That would suggest it was more or less contemporaneous with C itself.
I've always thought of it as "C run time stage 0".
crt - C RunTme.
It's an ill wind that blows a Fortran runtime using the same convention.
Regards,
Branden