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glossary-type: term
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- role: glossary-member
  uid: ../glossary-general
term: software unit
text: |
  This term is defined by ECSS-E-ST-40C 3.2.24 as a "separately compilable
  piece of source code".  For this project a *software unit* shall be any of
  the following items and nothing else:

  * ${assemblerlanguage:/term} function in a
    ${sourcecode:/term} file

  * ${clanguage:/term} function (external and internal linkage)

  A *software unit* is a ${softwarecomponent:/term}.
type: glossary