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From: iverson@cisco.nospam (Tim Iverson)
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: 15 May 1997 11:06:08 -0700
Organization: cisco
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References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <5ldbhd$h9m@web.nmti.com> <5lepj2$iqt@innocence.interface-business.de>
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In article <5lepj2$iqt@innocence.interface-business.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de> wrote:
|peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote:
|
|(meaning of `bss')
|
|> Block Start (something), IIRC.
|> 
|> Damn.
|
|Block Starting Symbol.  I eventually forgot the origin (must be an old
|assembler/machine language).

Blank Segment (or Section) Start; a.out executables have three sections:
.text, .data, and .bss.  BSS is for uninitialized data; it is zeroed at
program start before main() is called, typically by crt0.s.

BTW, this is one of the most hotly contested acronyms out there ...


- Tim Iverson
  iverson@lionheart,com