Data segment
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A data segment is one of the sections of a program in an object file or in memory, which contains the global variables that are initialized by the programmer. It has a fixed size, since all of the data in this section is set by the programmer before the program is loaded. However, it is not read-only, since the values of the variables can be altered at runtime. This is in contrast to the Rodata (constant, read-only data) section, as well as the text segment.
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