where does bss come from?

[larry at jc3b21.UUCP]

In article <473 at jc3b21.UUCP>, jra at jc3b21.UUCP (Jay R. Ashworth) writes:
> In article <159 at itcatl.UUCP>, parris at itcatl.UUCP writes:
> > In article <161 at nbc1.UUCP>, abs at nbc1.UUCP writes:
> > > > In article <2627 at burdvax.UUCP> eric at burdvax.UUCP (Eric Marshall) writes:
> > > > >	Could someone please tell me where the name BSS comes from.
> > > > >The comments in /usr/include/a.out.h says that it is uninitialized
> > > > >data. What's the connection?

Just to confuse the issue.  The same pseudo-op was (is) used on the CDC
6000, 7000 (, and I believe 3000) series computers.  In THAT environment
it stood for 'Block Storage Start' (no, I don't know why 'start' instead
of 'size' ...)

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