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Re: compile error when using newer version ecos configurat ion tool

To: alexs at redhat dot com
Subject: Re: [ECOS] compile error when using newer version ecos configurat ion tool
From: Alex Schuilenburg <alexs at redhat dot com>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 16:40:44 +0000
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>,Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>, jfsimon at mageos dot com,eCos <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
Organization: Red Hat
References: <B1F6452C89AFD411AE0800A0CC734C2301513F@EMAIL1> <20011113091752.P15856@biferten.ma.tech.ascom.ch> <3BF140BC.9000401@redhat.com>
Reply-to: alexs at redhat dot com

Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
...

> I asked the compiler folks around here.  The answer I got was that
>  "bss" was actually the mnemonic for the IBM/370 instruction that
> zero'ed a section of memory, and hence how the naming of the section was 
> derived.
> 
> No-one can recall what the mnemonics actually stood for though - not old 
> enough ;-)


Correction :-)

It was a PDP10 instruction and not an IBM/370 as originally reported
and it really stands for:

         Block Started By Symbol.

As reported by "jf simon" <jfsimon@mageos.com>

Clear as mud really...

-- Alex

References:
- RE: compile error when using newer version ecos configuration tool
  - From: Fabrice Gautier
- Re: compile error when using newer version ecos configurat ion tool
  - From: Andrew Lunn
- Re: compile error when using newer version ecos configurat ion tool
  - From: Alex Schuilenburg

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