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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 14 May 1997 21:41:01 GMT
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
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> 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.
Block Start (something), IIRC.
Damn.
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