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From: dixon@ihuxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: BSS
Message-ID: <337@ihuxa.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Nov-83 18:25:40 EST
Article-I.D.: ihuxa.337
Posted: Sat Nov 19 18:25:40 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Nov-83 04:22:55 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, Il
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I believe that BSS stands for Blank Storage Space. I do not know
when or where it originated. The C compiler/assembler for
the PDP 11 computers generate the directive .bss to specify the
start of uninitialized data.


D A Dixon     ihuxa!dixon   (ihuxl!dixon after 11/21)