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From: jrw@hropus.UUCP (Jim Webb)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: where does bss come from?
Message-ID: <650@hropus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 18:03:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: hropus.650
Posted: Tue Sep  2 18:03:26 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Sep-86 18:40:37 EDT
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Organization: Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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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?
> 

It was, until divestiture, a Bell System Secret :-)

Actually, though, it is the mnemonic from some arcane assembler that
dealt with data segments and/or symbols.
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Jim Webb             "Out of phase--get help"         ihnp4!houxm!hropus!jrw