PORTION OF AN OBJECT FILE CONTAINING EXECUTABLE INSTRUCTIONS
Text segment; .text
codesegment
<memory> (Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the
machine code instructions of a program. The codesegment
of a program may be shared between multiple processes running
that code so long as none of them tries to modify it.
Unix, confusingly, calls this the "text segment" and the
area for uninitialied data, the bss segment.
Initialised data is located in the data segment.
(1996-12-21)
Codesegment
In computing, a codesegment, also known as a text segment or simply as text, is a portion of an object file or the corresponding section of the program's virtual address space that contains executable instructions. The term "segment" comes from the memory segment, which is a historical approach to memory management that has been succeeded by paging.
In computing, a code segment, also known as a text segment or simply as text, is a portion of an object file or the corresponding section of the program's virtual address space that contains executable instructions.