Glossary

On GitHub issues you'll sometimes come across abbreviations.

We try to list some of them here which are related to the project.

D

DYLD

DYLD is the dynamic linker on Mac OS X.

L

libc

Standard library of the C programming language.

N

NSPR

NSPR stands for NetScape Portable Runtime. It is a platform-neutral API for system-level and libc-like functions.

NSS

NSS stands for Network Security Services. They are a collection of libraries for secure communitcation between client and server.

R

REPL

REPL stands for Read-eval-print-loop and describes an environment, where the computes takes input (“read”), works with it (“eval”) and puts the result back (“print”). Then start again (“loop”).