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Chapter 8. Assembler Directives

s

shared section (meaningful for PE targets)

a

ignored. (For compatibility with the ELF version)

If no flags are specified, the default flags depend upon the section name. If the section name is not

recognized, the default will be for the section to be loaded and writable. Note the

n

and

w

flags remove

attributes from the section, rather than adding them, so if they are used on their own it will be as if no

flags had been specified at all.

If the optional argument to the

.section

directive is not quoted, it is taken as a subsegment number

(Section 5.4 Sub Sections).

8.78.2. ELF Version

This is one of the ELF section stack manipulation directives. The others are

.subsection

(Section

8.89

.subsection name

),

.pushsection

(Section 8.73

.pushsection name, subsection

),

.popsection

(Section 8.68

.popsection

), and

.previous

(Section 8.67

.previous

).

For ELF targets, the

.section

directive is used like this:

.section name [, "flags"[, @type[,flag_specific_arguments]]

The optional

flags

argument is a quoted string which may contain any combination of the following

characters:

a

section is allocatable

w

section is writable

x

section is executable

M

section is mergeable

S

section contains zero terminated strings

G

section is a member of a section group

T

section is used for thread local storage

The optional

type

argument may contain one of the following constants: