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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!144.212.95.13!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!howland.erols.net!newshub2.home.com!newshub1.home.com!news.home.com!nick.arc.nasa.gov!usenet.cisco.com!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <5lfjag$k01$1@rottweiler.cisco.com> References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <5ldbhd$h9m@web.nmti.com> <5lepj2$iqt@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rottweiler.cisco.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45022 comp.os.linux.misc:175520 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3256 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40989 In article <5lepj2$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