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Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!EU.net!CERN.ch!news.cern.ch!danpop From: Dan.Pop@cern.ch (Dan Pop) Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ues5.cern.ch Message-ID: <danpop.863725985@news.cern.ch> Sender: news@news.cern.ch (USENET News System) Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #18 (NOV) References: <5kd2ng$c8b$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> <Pine.SUN.3.95.970513170134.19438A-100000@omni2> <Pine.GSO.3.96.970513200952.7143D-100000@tree.Stanford.EDU> <EA6HHD.AAF@serval.net.wsu.edu> <5ldbhd$h9m@web.nmti.com> Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 19:53:05 GMT Lines: 20 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.shell:45033 comp.os.linux.misc:175567 comp.unix.bsd.misc:3261 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41006 In <5ldbhd$h9m@web.nmti.com> peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) 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. > >Block Start (something), IIRC. > >Damn. Block Started by Symbol -- directive of an antique IBM assembler. BES (Block Ended by Symbol) existed, as well, but was less popular. Dan -- Dan Pop CERN, IT Division Email: Dan.Pop@cern.ch Mail: CERN - PPE, Bat. 31 1-014, CH-1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland