What bss means (was Re: Uninitialized global data)

[Dave Burton]

In article <1744 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> rjchen at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Raymond Chen) writes:
>I believe that global data initialized to zero go into a special
>segment called "bss".  What it stands for is beyond me.


BSS means "Block Started by Symbol", and comes from an IBM7090 assembly
pseudo-op.
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