Reserved Words
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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 | INITINSTANCE2 | PRELOAD |
| BASE | IOPL | PRIVATE |
| CODE | LIBRARY1 | PROTMODE2 |
| CONFORMING | LOADONCALL1 | PURE1 |
| DATA | LONGNAMES2 | READONLY |
| DESCRIPTION | MOVABLE1 |
READWRITE |
| DEV386 | MOVEABLE1 | REALMODE1 |
| DISCARDABLE | MULTIPLE | RESIDENT |
| DYNAMIC | NAME | RESIDENTNAME1 |
| EXECUTE-ONLY | NEWFILES2 | SECTIONS |
| EXECUTEONLY | NODATA1 |
SEGMENTS |
| EXECUTEREAD | NOIOPL1 | SHARED |
| EXETYPE | NONAME | SINGLE |
| EXPORTS | NONCONFORMING1 | STACKSIZE |
| FIXED1 | NONDISCARDABLE | STUB |
| FUNCTIONS2 | NONE | VERSION |
| HEAPSIZE | NONSHARED | WINDOWAPI |
| IMPORTS | NOTWINDOWCOMPAT1 | WINDOWCOMPAT |
| IMPURE1 | OBJECTS | WINDOWS |
| INCLUDE2 | OLD1 |
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.