SEGMENT (Open a Program Information Segment)

Defines or reopens a segment called Segment-Name which will contain all subsequently emitted code or data.

Syntax

Segment-Name SEGMENT [align][combine][use]['class']

Remarks

A segment definition may be followed by zero or more segment attributes, at most one from each of the following selections:

align

Instructs the linker to align the segment at the next align boundary. One of:

BYTE

The next 8-bit boundary.
DWORD
The next 32-bit boundary.
PAGE
The next 256-byte boundary (4096 under 32-bit OS/2).
PARA
The next 16-byte boundary (default).
WORD
The next 16-bit boundary.
combine
Controls how the linker will combine this segment with identically-named segments from other modules. One of:

AT address

Locates the segment at the absolute paragraph given by address.
COMMON
Unioned with segments from other modules.
PRIVATE
Will not be combined with other segments (default).
PUBLIC
Concatenated to segments from other modules.
STACK
Concatenated to segments from other modules. At load time:

SS=beginning of segment
SS:(E)SP=end of segment
use
Word size of the segment.

USE16

The segment will have a 16-bit word size.
USE32
The segment will have a 32-bit word size.
'class'
Instructs the linker to order segments according to the class name given by 'class'. Segments will not be combined if their class names differ.

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