Segment alignment etc.

[Agner@…]

Is it possible to specify the properties of a segment, such as alignment, writeable, executable, zerofill?

I am considering to add support for YASM syntax in my disassembler, www.agner.org/optimize/objconv.zip but I need these features.

[peter@…]

Yes, they're specified as parameters to the section directive. The exact names of the parameters depends on the object format. What object format are you looking at?

E.g. win32 supports discard, cache, page, share, execute, read, write, base flags, as well as alignment. You can turn off the binary flags by prefixing with "no":

section .data align=16 nodiscard cache noshare execute

If you let me know what object format you're looking at, I can give you details on the flags available for that format.

[www.agner.org]

Thank you, that works. I would prefer that you put this in the manual. I am supporting most object file formats in my disassembler (OMF, COFF/PE, ELF, MACHO).

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[peter@…]

It's documented for elf and bin, but not the others. I'll try to get those documented.

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