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from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

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BSS
BSS segment

   <memory> (BSS) The uninitialised data segment produced by
   {Unix} {linkers}.  Objects in the bss segment have only a name
   and a size but no value.

   Executable code is located in the {code segment} and
   initialised data in the {data segment}.

   (2004-02-24)