Editing Code segment (section)

{{Short description|Portion of an object file containing executable instructions}}
[[File:Program memory layout.svg|thumb|383x383px|This shows the typical layout of a simple computer's program memory with the text, various data, and [[call stack|stack]] and [[heap (programming) |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]] [[instruction (computer science)|instructions]].<ref name="jason">{{Cite web
 | url = http://www.cs.uwm.edu/classes/cs315/Bacon/Lecture/HTML/ch10s04.html
 | title = Chapter 10. Subprogram Calls and the Stack
 | at = Section 10.4. Memory Segments
 | date = 2012-03-13
 | accessdate = 2014-05-02
 | author = Jason W. Bacon
 | website = cs.uwm.edu
 | archive-date = 2014-05-02
 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140502115622/http://www.cs.uwm.edu/classes/cs315/Bacon/Lecture/HTML/ch10s04.html
 | url-status = dead
 }}</ref>