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This option changes the attributes of a section, overriding the attributes that were set when the object file for the section was compiled or linked.
/SECTION**:name[=newname][,attributes][,**alignment]
After the colon ( : ), specify the name of the section. To change the section name, follow name with an equal sign (=) and a newname for the section.
To set or change the section’s attributes, specify a comma (,) followed by one or more attributes characters. To negate an attribute, precede its character with an exclamation point (!). The following characters specify memory attributes:
| Attribute | Setting |
| c | code |
| d | discardable |
| e | executable |
| i | initialized data |
| k | cached virtual memory |
| m | link remove |
| o | link info |
| p | paged virtual memory |
| r | read |
| s | shared |
| u | uninitialized data |
| w | write |
To control alignment, specify the character a followed by a character to set the size of alignment in bytes, as follows:
| Character | Alignment size in bytes |
| 1 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 |
| 4 | 4 |
| 8 | 8 |
| p | 16 |
| t | 32 |
| s | 64 |
| x | no alignment |
Specify the attributes and alignment characters as a string with no white space. The characters are not case sensitive.