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From: dchen@oliveb.UUCP (Dennis Chen)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: where does bss come from?
Message-ID: <1096@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 31-Aug-86 04:45:52 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug 31 04:45:52 1986
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References: <2627@burdvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: dchen@oliveb.UUCP (Dennis Chen)
Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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Keywords: bss

In article <2627@burdvax.UUCP> eric@burdvax.UUCP (Eric Marshall) writes:
>
>	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?
>

The name BSS comes from an assembly pseudo-operator on the IBM 7090
machine, which stands for "Block Started by Symbol".


Dennis Chen @ Olivetti ATC
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