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From: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: What bss means (was Re:  Uninitialized global data)
Message-ID: <1343@laidbak.UUCP>
Date: 18 Feb 88 14:36:59 GMT
References: <1744@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton)
Organization: is pretty bad/My method of
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Keywords: bss

In article <1744@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> rjchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Chen) writes:
>I believe that global data initialized to zero go into a special
>segment called "bss".  What it stands for is beyond me.


BSS means "Block Started by Symbol", and comes from an IBM7090 assembly
pseudo-op.
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