code segment


code segment

(memory)(Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing themachine code instructions of a program. The code segmentof a program may be shared between multiple processes runningthat code so long as none of them tries to modify it.

Unix, confusingly, calls this the "text segment" and thearea for uninitialied data, the bss segment.

Initialised data is located in the data segment.