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| author | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2019-01-23 10:40:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Sebastian Huber <sebastian.huber@embedded-brains.de> | 2019-01-24 07:31:25 +0100 |
| commit | 63735bc9d2ec845ebe070c9eb0bb45f60aefdebc (patch) | |
| tree | 7d522088c8fe1c090bcc975536dc151a4a89e7c5 /user/exe/executables.rst | |
| parent | user: Stub documentation for griscv BSP (diff) | |
| download | rtems-docs-63735bc9d2ec845ebe070c9eb0bb45f60aefdebc.tar.bz2 | |
user: Spell out third-party
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diff --git a/user/exe/executables.rst b/user/exe/executables.rst index 53b0cc5..be57fed 100644 --- a/user/exe/executables.rst +++ b/user/exe/executables.rst @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ has to provide similar functionality to execute an embedded executable. An RTEMS Source Builder (RSB) built RTEMS tool chain is used to create RTEMS executables. The tool chain executable creates a fixed position statically linked Extendable Loader Format (ELF) file that contains the RTEMS kernel, -standard libraries, 3rd party libraries and application code. RTEMS executes in +standard libraries, third-party libraries and application code. RTEMS executes in a single address space which means it does not support the ``fork`` or ``exec`` system calls so statically linking all the code is the easiest and best way to create an executable. @@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ application. RTEMS conforms to a number of international standards such as POSIX and can build and run portable code written in languages such as C, C++ and Ada. -Applications are built from source into ELF object files, 3rd party packages +Applications are built from source into ELF object files, third-party packages can be built as libraries or they can be imported as source into an application -code base. The application, 3rd party packages, RTEMS and standard libraries +code base. The application, third-party packages, RTEMS and standard libraries are linked to create the RTEMS executable. The executable is transferred to the target and a bootloader loads it from the non-volatile storage into RAM or the code is executed in place in the non-volatile storage. The target hardware @@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ defines what happens. Building an Application -The standard and 3rd party libraries are a collection of object files built +The standard and third-party libraries are a collection of object files built using the same set of tools the application source is compiled with. The package collects it's object files into an archive or library. |