Code segment

This shows the typical layout of a simple computer's program memory with the text, various data, and stack and heap sections.

In computing, a code segment, also known as a text segment or simply as text, is a portion of an object file or the corresponding section of the program's virtual address space that contains executable instructions.[1]

  1. ^ Jason W. Bacon (2012-03-13). "Chapter 10. Subprogram Calls and the Stack". cs.uwm.edu. Section 10.4. Memory Segments. Archived from the original on 2014-05-02. Retrieved 2014-05-02.