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<h4 class="subsection">3.6.2 Output Section Name</h4>
<p><a name="index-name_002c-section-362"></a><a name="index-section-name-363"></a>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 <span class="samp">.text</span>, <span class="samp">.data</span> or <span class="samp">.bss</span>). 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.
<p>The output section name <span class="samp">/DISCARD/</span> is special; <a href="Output-Section-Discarding.html#Output-Section-Discarding">Output Section Discarding</a>.
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