Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lakesys!chad From: chad@lakesys.UUCP (D. Chadwick Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Re^2: BSS data segment Keywords: bss Message-ID: <929@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 5 Aug 89 06:07:53 GMT References: <10587@smoke.BRL.MIL> <20900001@inmet> <69@harald.UUCP> Reply-To: chad@lakesys.UUCP (D. Chadwick Gibbons) Followup-To: /dev/null Distribution: usa Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lines: 5 ...actually, it stands for Blank Static Storage, at least according to every C book and UNIX manual I have ever read...so that gives it about a 60% of being correct...maybe less; maybe a lot less. -- D. Chadwick Gibbons, chad@lakesys.lakesys.com, ...!uunet!marque!lakesys!chad