13 Jun
2023
13 Jun
'23
12:29 a.m.
On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 2:22 PM ron minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This came up lately in the riscv firmware universe.
Someone named early boot bt0, I mentioned crt0, and ... when did that name first appear? I
first saw it in v6 but I'm sure it was long before.
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.
- Dan C.