Section names – Zilog Z80380 User Manual

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C-Compiler Overview

Section Names

SECTION NAMES

The compiler places code and data into separate sections in the object file. Every section has
a name that is used by the linker to determine which sections to combine and how sections
are ultimately grouped in the executable file.

•

Code Section (.text)

•

Initialized Data Section (.data)

•

Uninitialized Data Section (.bss)

•

Constant Data Section (.const)

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All sections are allocated in the __MEMORY address space. The default sections

.text

,

.data

, and

.bss

can be renamed using the –Ntext, –Ndata, and –Nbss command line options.

float

32 bits

double

32 bits

long double

32 bits

Type Size

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