Reserved words

The following words are reserved by the linker. These names can be used as arguments in module-definition statements only if the name is enclosed in double quotation marks ("").

APPLOADER¹
BASE
CODE
CONFORMING
DATA
DESCRIPTION
DEV386
DISCARDABLE
DYNAMIC
EXECUTE-ONLY
EXECUTEONLY
EXECUTEREAD
EXETYPE
EXPORTS
FIXED¹

FUNCTIONS²
HEAPSIZE
IMPORTS
IMPURE¹
INCLUDE²
INITINSTANCE²
IOPL
LIBRARY¹
LOADONCALL¹
LONGNAMES²
MOVABLE¹
MOVEABLE¹
MULTIPLE
NAME
NEWFILES²

NODATA¹
NOIOPL¹
NONAME
NONCONFORMING¹
NONDISCARDABLE
NONE
NONSHARED
NOTWINDOWCOMPAT¹
OBJECTS
OLD¹
PRELOAD
PRIVATE
PROTMODE²
PURE¹
READONLY

READWRITE
REALMODE¹
RESIDENT
RESIDENTNAME¹
SECTIONS
SEGMENTS
SHARED
SINGLE
STACKSIZE
STUB
VERSION
WINDOWAPI
WINDOWCOMPAT
WINDOWS

¹ The linker emits a warning ("ignored") when it encounters this term. However, the word is still reserved.

² The linker ignores this word but emits no warning.

See also

• MSVC linker reference
• MSVC Linker Options