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#! rnews 1795 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!ggr.co.uk!gml4410 From: gml4410@ggr.co.uk (Lack Mr G M) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:29:50 BST Organization: GlaxoWellcome Lines: 19 Sender: gml4410@ukwit01 (Lack Mr G M) Message-ID: <1997May15.092950@ukwit01> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: ukwit01.ggr.co.uk Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:175327 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3222 In article <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu>, wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu (Wayne Cochran - CS) writes: |> |> 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. Looking at my Prime assemler nook it has 3 pseudo-ops, BES, BSS and BSZ. These are Block, (End, Start), (Space, Zero). So I would imagine that it means Block Start Space. (It just allocates a block of space). --- ----------- Gordon Lack ----------------- gml4410@ggr.co.uk ------------ The contents of this message *may* reflect my personal opinion. They are *not* intended to reflect those of my employer, or anyone else.