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from: Rinat Sadretdinow
date: 1996-03-22 14:19:14
subject: ILINK`s undocumented statements

Hello All!

Does anybody know anything about undocumented statements of LINK386 and ILINK?
There is a list of all reserved words in the Visual Age's linker guide and it
contains a number of words not described anywhere. Below I include a cut from
the guide where I've marked all such words with an asterisk:

-------------------------------8<------------------------------------
 Module definition keywords in the list below have hypertext links to their
 explanations. Words without a hypertext link are reserved words, and
 should not be used for any purpose.

  ALIAS                LIBRARY              PRELOAD
  BASE                 LOADONCALL         * PRIVATE
  CODE               * LONGNAMES          * PROTECT
  CONFORMING           MAXVAL             * PURE
* CONTIGUOUS           MIXED1632            READONLY
  DATA               * MOVABLE              READWRITE
  DESCRIPTION        * MOVEABLE           * REALMODE
* DEV386               MULTIPLES          * RESIDENT
* DISCARDABLE          NAME                 RESIDENTNAME
* DOS4               * NEWFILES           * ROBASE
* DYNAMIC            * NODATA               SEGMENTS
  EXECUTEONLY        * NOEXPANDDOWN         SHARED
  EXECUTEREAD          NOIOPL               SINGLE
  EXETYPE              NONAME               STACKSIZE
* EXPANDDOWN           NONCONFORMING        STUB
  EXPORTS            * NONDISCARDABLE     * SWAPPABLE
* FIXED                NONE               * SYSBASE
  HEAPSIZE           * NONPERMANENT         TERMGLOBAL
* HUGE                 NONSHARED            TERMINSTANCE
  IOPL                 NOTWINDOWCOMPAT      UNKNOWN
  IMPORTS            * OBJECTS              VIRTUAL DEVICE
* IMPURE               OLD                  WINDOWAPI
* INCLUDE            * ORDER                WINDOWCOMPAT
  INITGLOBAL           OS2                  WINDOWS
  INITINSTANCE       * PERMANENT
* INVALID              PHYSICAL DEVICE
-------------------------------8<------------------------------------

Some of these words are self-explaining, for example [NO]EXPANDDOWN, LONGNAMES,
etc. But another are not. Any suggestions?

Bye!
Rinat Sadretdinow                                              [Team OS/2]

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