data segment

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

   <memory> The range of memory locations where the {initialised
   data} of a program produced by a {Unix} {linker} is located.

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

   (2004-02-24)
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