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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>P.O.D.</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="next" href="packet-over-air.html" title="packet over air"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">P.O.D.</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../P.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="packet-over-air.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="P-O-D-"/><dt xmlns="" id="P-O-D-"><b>P.O.D.</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/P·O·D/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [rare; sometimes &#8216;POD&#8217; without the periods] Acronym for
&#8216;Piece Of Data&#8217; or &#8216;Plain Old Data&#8217; (as opposed to
a code section, or a section containing mixed code and data). The latter
expansion was in use by the C++ standards committee, for which it indicated
a struct or class which only contains data (as in C), distinguished from
one which has a constructor and member functions. There are things which
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