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In article <18geqmINN6u2@agate.berkeley.edu> c60b-1fk@e260-1c.berkeley.edu (Ahmon Dancy) writes:
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>Greetings.  Often when I look through the assembly output of a C
>compiler, the string BSS shows up several times in the code. Can
>anyone explain what the BSS is?


Assuming you mean a c compiler from the Borland family - I donno how
much of this is equiv in MSC and others.

	My sources tell me tha _BSS is the segment of uninitilized data
rather then _DATA [?] segment which is initlized data.

	Usually both [xcept on huge model] arge grouped into DGROUP.

	While the initilization data is stored in the executible -
there is no need to store uninitilized data [lots of zeros] there too
- that _BSS is assigned zeros at load time.


examples initilized data:
	char MyData[]="Hello There";

	uninitilized data:
	char MyData[10];




		I think....

			-Nevo

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