daveb@laidbak.UUCP (Dave Burton) (02/18/88)
In article <1744@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> rjchen@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. -- --------------------"Well, it looked good when I wrote it"--------------------- Verbal: Dave Burton Net: ...!ihnp4!laidbak!daveb V-MAIL: (312) 505-9100 x325 USSnail: 1901 N. Naper Blvd. #include <disclaimer.h> Naperville, IL 60540