Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?

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From: Vince Scarafino
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00

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Wayne Cochran - CS wrote:
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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.
> 
> -- wayne
> Wayne O. Cochran
> wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu
> http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/~wcochran
> Ecclesiastes 3:11

bss = Block Starting with Symbol

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From: Vince Scarafino <vscarafi@ford.com>
Subject: Re: unix acronyms -collecting a list?
Date: 1997/05/14
Message-ID: <337A2B38.BF2@ford.com>
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To: Wayne Cochran - CS <wcochran@eecs.wsu.edu>
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