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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!jobone!dailyplanet.srl.ford.com!eccws1.dearborn.ford.com!news From: Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,gnu.misc.discuss,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 17:14:32 -0400 Organization: Ford Motor Company Lines: 14 Message-ID: <337A2B38.BF2@ford.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <5l3c2f$i1j@pasilla.bbnplanet.com> <337A003F.6A7B@ncofsi.com> <3378D37F.462F3A47@gaijin.com> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> Reply-To: vscarafi@ford.com NNTP-Posting-Host: pms045.pms.ford.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01C (Win95; I) To: Wayne Cochran - CS <wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:44931 comp.os.linux.misc:175272 comp.os.linux.x:61547 alt.os.linux:21128 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3211 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40886 gnu.misc.discuss:31248 comp.unix.solaris:106491 Wayne Cochran - CS wrote: ... > Here is one TLA I could never find out for those of you who code in assembly. > Just as there is a text and data section for executable and read-only data repectively, > what does bss stand for in bss section (it is the read/write data section for > most assemblers/linkers)? I always just called it the bs section. > > -- wayne > Wayne O. Cochran > wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu > http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~wcochran > Ecclesiastes 3:11 bss = Block Starting with Symbol