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 - <h3 class="section">4.2 Linker Sections</h3>
 - <p><code>ld</code> deals with just four kinds of sections, summarized below.
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 - <dt><strong>named sections</strong></dt>
 - <dd><a name="index-text-section"></a>
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 - <dt><strong>text section</strong></dt>
 - <dt><strong>data section</strong></dt>
 - <dd><p>These sections hold your program.  <code>as</code> and <code>ld</code> treat them as
 - separate but equal sections.  Anything you can say of one section is
 - true of another.
 - When the program is running, however, it is
 - customary for the text section to be unalterable.  The
 - text section is often shared among processes: it contains
 - instructions, constants and the like.  The data section of a running
 - program is usually alterable: for example, C variables would be stored
 - in the data section.
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 - </dd>
 - <dt><strong>bss section</strong></dt>
 - <dd><p>This section contains zeroed bytes when your program begins running.  It
 - is used to hold uninitialized variables or common storage.  The length of
 - each partial program’s bss section is important, but because it starts
 - out containing zeroed bytes there is no need to store explicit zero
 - bytes in the object file.  The bss section was invented to eliminate
 - those explicit zeros from object files.
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 - This is useful if you want to refer to an address that <code>ld</code> must
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 - <pre class="smallexample">                      +-----+----+--+
 - partial program # 1:  |ttttt|dddd|00|
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 -                       text   data bss
 -                       seg.   seg. seg.
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 -                       +---+---+---+
 - partial program # 2:  |TTT|DDD|000|
 -                       +---+---+---+
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 -                       +--+---+-----+--+----+---+-----+~~
 - linked program:       |  |TTT|ttttt|  |dddd|DDD|00000|
 -                       +--+---+-----+--+----+---+-----+~~
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 -     addresses:        0 …
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