Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 16:24:44 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Faxer <redpixel@c164-147.pro.thalamus.se> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/34088: a.out(5) fails to explain what bss is Message-ID: <200201201524.g0KFOiY42115@c164-147.pro.thalamus.se>
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>Number: 34088 >Category: docs >Synopsis: a.out(5) fails to explain what bss is >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jan 20 07:30:00 PST 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Martin Faxer <gmh003532@brfmasthugget.se> >Release: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 >Organization: None >Environment: System: FreeBSD lockdown.nodomain 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #6: Sun Jan 13 21:13:40 CET 2002 redpixel@lockdown.nodomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LOCKDOWN i386 >Description: The a.out(5) man page states that nobody agrees on what the abbreviation bss stands for. This appears to be incorrect; after discussing on IRC and checking various sites on the internet everybody seems to agree upon the fact that it stands for "Block Started by Symbol". URL reference: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/faq/part1/section-3.html >How-To-Repeat: Check the BUGS section of the a.out(5) man page, rev 1.13. >Fix: Apply the following fix (or a better one; I'm not familiar with the mdoc(7) syntax) against rev 1.13 of the file /usr/src/share/man/man5/a.out.5: --- a.out.5.orig Sun Jan 20 15:06:00 2002 +++ a.out.5 Sun Jan 20 15:21:47 2002 @@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ after the data segment. The kernel loads the program so that this amount of writable memory appears to follow the data segment and initially reads as zeroes. +.Po +.Em bss += block started by symbol +.Pc .It Fa a_syms Contains the size in bytes of the symbol table section. .It Fa a_entry @@ -456,7 +460,3 @@ the byte order of the .Fa exec header is machine-dependent. -.Pp -Nobody seems to agree on what -.Em bss -stands for. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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