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 `.section NAME'
 ===============
 
    Use the `.section' directive to assemble the following code into a
 section named NAME.
 
    This directive is only supported for targets that actually support
 arbitrarily named sections; on `a.out' targets, for example, it is not
 accepted, even with a standard `a.out' section name.
 
    For COFF targets, the `.section' directive is used in one of the
 following ways:
      .section NAME[, "FLAGS"]
      .section NAME[, SUBSEGMENT]
 
    If the optional argument is quoted, it is taken as flags to use for
 the section.  Each flag is a single character.  The following flags are
 recognized:
 `b'
      bss section (uninitialized data)
 
 `n'
      section is not loaded
 
 `w'
      writable section
 
 `d'
      data section
 
 `r'
      read-only section
 
 `x'
      executable section
 
 `s'
      shared section (meaningful for PE targets)
 
    If no flags are specified, the default flags depend upon the section
 name.  If the section name is not recognized, the default will be for
 the section to be loaded and writable.
 
    If the optional argument to the `.section' directive is not quoted,
 it is taken as a subsegment number ( Sub-Sections).
 
    For ELF targets, the `.section' directive is used like this:
      .section NAME[, "FLAGS"[, @TYPE]]
    The optional FLAGS argument is a quoted string which may contain any
 combintion of the following characters:
 `a'
      section is allocatable
 
 `w'
      section is writable
 
 `x'
      section is executable
 
    The optional TYPE argument may contain one of the following
 constants:
 `@progbits'
      section contains data
 
 `@nobits'
      section does not contain data (i.e., section only occupies space)
 
    If no flags are specified, the default flags depend upon the section
 name.  If the section name is not recognized, the default will be for
 the section to have none of the above flags: it will not be allocated
 in memory, nor writable, nor executable.  The section will contain data.
 
    For ELF targets, the assembler supports another type of `.section'
 directive for compatibility with the Solaris assembler:
      .section "NAME"[, FLAGS...]
    Note that the section name is quoted.  There may be a sequence of
 comma separated flags:
 `#alloc'
      section is allocatable
 
 `#write'
      section is writable
 
 `#execinstr'
      section is executable
 

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