Re^2: BSS data segment

[Steve Lamont]

In article <69 at harald.UUCP> jba at harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen) writes:
>mark at inmet writes:
>
 >>As a new comer to UNIX and C I have always wondered what BSS stands for??
>
>I saw it mentiond just a few days ago, but don't recall where.
>It stands for Block Started by Symbol, a phrase used by some old
>IBM assembler I think.
>-- 
>Jan B. Andersen                              ("SIMULA does it with CLASS")

IBM 709 class machine, to be exact.

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