[steveklabnik]

(not the parent) You're not wrong but you're not right either. There's basically a colloquialism where many developers say "runtime" to mean "large runtime" and "no runtime" to mean "small runtime," but that doesn't mean that crt0, the "c runtime starting from zero", doesn't exist, just that we've ended up in a place where this gets confusing to talk about because nobody uses the same definitions.

So if it's idiosyncratic really depends on what audience you're talking to.