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diff --git a/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo b/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo index 9ad6f47..f27185f 100644 --- a/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/chap/memory-allocation.texinfo @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ There are three important segments. When a process exec:s this segment is allocated. It contains instructions, static constants, and literals. -@item BSS segment +@item @sc{BSS} segment When a process exec:s this segment is allocated. It contains all global and static variables that are initialised to zero or lacks explicit initialisation. @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ segment. @item data segment When a process exec:s this segment is allocated. It is filled all global and static variables that -are not covered by the BSS segment. +are not covered by the @sc{BSS} segment. This segment's lower end is fixed, and its upper end is unfixed; it can be resized. Any part of the segment that is a result of it being resized, is referred to @@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ in mind this cannot be assumed practice, and that it is in fact different between systems.} layout is have the text segment (as other fixed segments) start at 0, and end at some positive address. The text -segment is then followed by the BSS segment, and the -data segment. The stack segment however, grows from -the highest address (@math{-1} on two's +segment is then followed by the @sc{BSS} segment, and +the data segment. The stack segment however, grows +from the highest address (@math{-1} on two's complement-machines) downwards. The process cannot allocate any more memory when the allocation would require the data segment to be grown to such an @@ -78,12 +78,12 @@ called global variables@footnote{Even if that are declared with @code{static}. In this context, @code{static} is only use to hide object from other translation units.}. These are stored either -in the BSS segment or in the data segment, depending +in the @sc{BSS} segment or in the data segment, depending on their initialisation. Pointer are stored as numerical values, and the content is stored in the text segment. Arrays however are not stored, but their content is. In the data segment (or in the -BSS segment if the elements are zeroes.) These +@sc{BSS} segment if the elements are zeroes.) These allocations are known as @i{static allocations}. @item Variables that are declared inside functions, with |