Re: [OT] about BigEndian and LittleEndian
From: glen herrmannsfeldt (gah_at_ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: 11/27/03
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Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 00:56:16 GMT
Dan Pop wrote:
> In <slrnbs96q4.1ma.jeremy@hehe.cl.cam.ac.uk> Jeremy Yallop <jeremy@jdyallop.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>>glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
>>
>>>Dan Pop wrote:
>>>
>>>>It's also common Unix terminology:
>>>
>>>> fangorn:~/tmp 217> size a.out
>>>> text data bss dec hex filename
>>>> 855 220 24 1099 44b a.out
>>>
>>>I don't think I ever knew what bss stands for.
>>
>>"Block started by symbol", according to Dennis Ritchie:
>
>
> And, IIRC, it was introduced by an IBM assembler, which supported it as
> a directive, along with BES, "block ended by symbol". Back in the late
> fifties or so.
I started with OS/360 assembly, and it seems it was gone by then.
-- glen
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