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From: eric@burdvax.UUCP (Eric Marshall)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: where does bss come from?
Message-ID: <2627@burdvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Aug-86 09:50:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 29 09:50:42 1986
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Organization: System Development Corp., Paoli, PA
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Keywords: bss


	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?


Thanks in advance.

Eric Marshall
System Development Corporation, a Burroughs Company
P.O. Box 517
Paoli, PA. 19301
(215) 648-7223

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