Abbreviations Dictionary

A

arg - Argument

ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange

B

BIOS - Basic input/output system

C

CLI - Command Line Interface

CPU - Central processing unit

E

ELF - Executable and Linkable Format

EOF - End of File

exec - Execute

EXT - Extended File System (ext2, ext3, ext4)

F

f32 - single-precision, 32-bit IEEE 754 floating-point representation

f64 - double-precision, 64-bit IEEE 754 floating-point representation

FAT - File Allocation Table

G

GUI - Graphical User Interface

H

HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer

I

i16 - 16-bit signed integer

i32 - 32-bit signed integer

i64 - 64-bit signed integer

i8 - 8-bit signed integer

inx - Index

M

max - Maximum

min - Minimum

msg - Message

N

num - Number

O

opt - Option

OS - Operating system

P

PID - Process Identifier

pos - Position

ptr - Pointer

U

u16 - 16-bit unsigned integer

u32 - 32-bit unsigned integer

u64 - 64-bit unsigned integer

u8 - 8-bit unsigned integer

UEFI - Unified Extensible Firmware Interface

V

val - Value

VFS - Virtual File System