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Common Object File Format (COFF)

Flags

The lower 2 bytes of the flag field indicate a section type. The flags are described in ``Section header flags''.

Section header flags

Mnemonic Flag Meaning
STYP_REG 0x00 Regular section (allocated, relocated, loaded)
STYP_DSECT 0x01 Dummy section (not allocated, relocated, not loaded)
STYP_NOLOAD 0x02 Noload section (allocated, relocated, not loaded)
STYP_GROUP 0x04 Grouped section (formed from input sections)
STYP_PAD 0x08 Padding section (not allocated, not relocated, loaded)
STYP_COPY 0x10 Copy section (for a decision function used in updating fields; not allocated, not relocated, loaded, relocation and line number entries processed normally)
STYP_TEXT 0x20 Section contains executable text
STYP_DATA 0x40 Section contains initialized data
STYP_BSS 0x80 Section contains only uninitialized data
STYP_INFO 0x200 Comment section (not allocated, not relocated, not loaded)
STYP_OVER 0x400 Overlay section (relocated, not allocated, not loaded)
STYP_LIB 0x800 For .lib section (treated like STYP_INFO)


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