what is a bss data segment?

sudheer .T

• Aug 7th, 2011

BSS (Block started by symbol), a part of Data Segment store all variables initialized to 0. static variable(initialized with value other than 0) are not stored in BSS.
Actually BSS is an "Uninitialized RAM" which is initialized to 0 before executing main().

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• Jun 25th, 2009

BSS, a part of Data Segment store all variables initialized to 0. static variable(initialized with value other than 0) are not stored in BSS.Actually BSS is an "Uninitialized RAM" which is initialized to 0 before executing main().

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