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From: bob@Iago.Caltech.EDU (Robert S. Logan)
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Subject: re: where does bss come from?
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Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 13:50:46 EDT
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The first time I saw bss was in the IBM 7090/7094 macro assembler:
BSS (block started by symbol) reserved a block of consecutive words
and (optionaly) defined a symbol pointing to the first word. There
was also a BES (block ended by symbol) op. I don't have a manual,
but I suspect there was a BSS in the SHARE assembler for the 709,
one of the first real assemblers.
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