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Re: anyone know the origin of the word 'insn'


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.

Others have already explained the meaning and pronunciation of "insn".  If you
really want to know the word's origin, you might want to ask Richard Stallman,
since he was the creator of GCC and came up with the word.

Colin


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