External Data and Text

Question 1

The text section contains?

Answer 1

Program text (machine code)
Read-only, programmer initialized data
Attempts to write to this memory cause a segmentation fault

Question 2

The data section contains?

Answer 2

Programmer initialized data

Is read/write memory

Question 3

The bss section contains?

Answer 3

(block starting symbol)
Contains zero initialized data
Is read/write memory

Question 4

External Variables are?

Answer 4

Non-local variables allocated in the data or bss sections

Question 5

The .skip pseudo-op does what?

Answer 5

Allocates uninitialized space

Question 6

The .global pseudo-op does what?

Answer 6

Makes the variable available to other compilation units

Question 7

Programmer initialized constants are put where?

Answer 7

In the text section

Question 8

ASCII stands for?

Answer 8

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

Question 9

A string literal is a?

Answer 9

Read-only array of characters, allocated in the text section

Question 10

An External Array of Pointers is?

Answer 10

Are created with a list(array) of labels

Question 11

Command line arguments allow?

Answer 11

The passing of values from the shell into the program