Reserved words
The following words are reserved by the linker. These names can be used as arguments in module-definition statements only if the name is enclosed in double quotation marks ("").
APPLOADER1
BASE
CODE
CONFORMING
DATA
DESCRIPTION
DEV386
DISCARDABLE
DYNAMIC
EXECUTE-ONLY
EXECUTEONLY
EXECUTEREAD
EXETYPE
EXPORTS
FIXED1
FUNCTIONS2
HEAPSIZE
IMPORTS
IMPURE1
INCLUDE2
INITINSTANCE2
IOPL
LIBRARY1
LOADONCALL1
LONGNAMES2
MOVABLE1
MOVEABLE1
MULTIPLE
NAME
NEWFILES2
NODATA1
NOIOPL1
NONAME
NONCONFORMING1
NONDISCARDABLE
NONE
NONSHARED
NOTWINDOWCOMPAT1
OBJECTS
OLD1
PRELOAD
PRIVATE
PROTMODE2
PURE1
READONLY
READWRITE
REALMODE1
RESIDENT
RESIDENTNAME1
SECTIONS
SEGMENTS
SHARED
SINGLE
STACKSIZE
STUB
VERSION
WINDOWAPI
WINDOWCOMPAT
WINDOWS
1 The linker emits a warning ("ignored") when it encounters this term. However, the word is still reserved.
2 The linker ignores this word but emits no warning.