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().

alokag

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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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which type of memory(stack or heap)is used by static and external variables?

kbjarnason

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• Jul 1st, 2010

Since C has no concept of "stack", the question of whether stack or heap memory is used seems a bit unclear.Static variables come in two distinct flavours: file scope and block scope.  ...

niyas15

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• Mar 2nd, 2010

The static variable is stored at data section and local variables are stored at stack and dynamic allocation of data are strored at heep

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