BSS data segment
Greg Ullmann
gregu at pyrnova
Sat Aug 5 05:26:53 AEST 1989
In article <20900001 at inmet> mark at inmet writes:
>
>As a new comer to UNIX and C I have always wondered what BSS stands for??
>
According to "Life with UNIX: A Guide for Everyone", Don Libes & Sandy
Ressler:
"bss" stands for Block Started by Symbol. Used by a now obsolete
IBM assembler, BSS was an assembler pseudo-opcode that filled an
area of memory with zeros. That is exactly the effect of the bss
in a.out files. The bss is also called the unitialized data.
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