code segment
({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 {bss
segment}.
(1996-12-21)