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From: vern@zebra.alphacdc.com (Vern Hoxie)
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Organization: Personal Development.
Message-ID: <EA7MIG.6JD@zebra.alphacdc.com>
References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 06:39:52 GMT
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In article <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu>,
Wayne Cochran - CS <wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu> 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.
'bss' was the name of a register on the IBM mainframe used to run early
UNIX by Ritchie et al.
I read that a couple of years ago in the COFF (Common Object File Format)
manual. "COFF" is the myriad of header structures for the compiled
programs. AT&T put out a 2 inch thick manual just to explain them. My
copy is currently misplaced.
vern
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