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Re: anyone know the origin of the word 'insn'
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- To: Marty Hauff <marty dot hauff at rmit dot edu dot au>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 15:31:12 -0800
- Subject: Re: anyone know the origin of the word 'insn'
- References: <sfa235ce.014@its-mn-inet1.its.rmit.edu.au>
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:13:22AM +1100, Marty Hauff wrote:
> I'm in the process of preparing a research paper describing some work I
> have been doing with GCC and would like to satisfy myself as to where
> this name came from? Does any one know? Is it an acronym, abreviation
> or just someones desire to create a word with one fewer vowel than would
> be necessary for all of us to know how to pronounce it.
"insn", abbreviation of "instruction", pronounced (by me anyway)
as \'in-s[^&]n\. (See m-w.com for pronunciation guide.)
r~