code segment

processor, operating system (Intel 8086 CS) The area of

memory containing the machine code instructions of an

executing program. Unix, confusingly, calls this the

text segment. 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.

Other segments are the data segment and, in Unix, the bsssegment.

(1996-12-21)