Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/10/22/10:01:48
Thomas Demmer wrote:
>
> bor AT EuropeMail DOT com wrote:
> >
> > I know meaning of:
> >
> > .text
> > .data
> > .stack
> >
> > but what is ".bss" for?
> Block Storage Segment.
> That's where global, uninitialized variables are stored (I think)
I have puzzled over this for a long time. Until I read [1], where it is
expalined: "Uninitialized data segment. This segment is often called
the "bss" segment, named after an ancient assembler operator that stood
for "block started by symbol."
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