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From: jba@harald.ruc.dk (Jan B. Andersen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re^2: BSS data segment
Message-ID: <69@harald.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 15:26:50 GMT
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Organization: RUC - Roskilde University Center, Denmark
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mark@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")