< memory > ( Intel 8086 CS) The area of memory containing the machine code instructions of a program . The code segment 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)