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<h4 class="subsection">3.6.2 Output Section Name</h4>
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<p>The name of the output section is <var>section</var>.  <var>section</var> must
meet the constraints of your output format.  In formats which only
support a limited number of sections, such as <code>a.out</code>, the name
must be one of the names supported by the format (<code>a.out</code>, for
example, allows only &lsquo;<samp>.text</samp>&rsquo;, &lsquo;<samp>.data</samp>&rsquo; or &lsquo;<samp>.bss</samp>&rsquo;). If the
output format supports any number of sections, but with numbers and not
names (as is the case for Oasys), the name should be supplied as a
quoted numeric string.  A section name may consist of any sequence of
characters, but a name which contains any unusual characters such as
commas must be quoted.
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<p>The output section name &lsquo;<samp>/DISCARD/</samp>&rsquo; is special; <a href="Output-Section-Discarding.html#Output-Section-Discarding">Output Section Discarding</a>.
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