Re^2: BSS data segment

Jan B. Andersen jba at harald.ruc.dk
Sat Aug 5 01:26:50 AEST 1989


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")



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