E.7. Object File Sections
We have worked with .data and .text program segments in sample programs, and have seen with the debugger that the linker assigns these to specific virtual address ranges. System software usually provides for additional logical sections that have some meaning to the programmer, the FORTRAN compiler, and so forth, but are ultimately just part of the .data or .text segments.
The Itanium assemblers provide an extension of the .section directive used also with GCC on other platforms. The particulars are discussed in the Intel Itanium Architecture Assembly Language Reference Manual. We shall illustrate only two forms:
.section name, "flags", "type" // define a section .section name // switch to a section
In fact, we shall ...
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