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From: jhv@houxu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix.wizards,net.unix
Subject: Re: What does BSS stand for???
Message-ID: <243@houxu.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 20:15:34 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov 19 20:15:34 1983
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When I was learning assembly language programming,
BSS stood for "Block Starting with Symbol", where the label, if any, on the BSS
line is assigned to the first location reserved for the block.
There was also a BES "Block Ending with Symbol", where the optional label
was assigned to the last location reserved for the block.