allocate.md

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allocate

Microsoft Specific

The allocate declaration specifier names a data segment in which the data item will be allocated.

Syntax

  
__declspec(allocate("  
segname  
")) declarator  

Remarks

The name segname must be declared using one of the following pragmas:

• code_seg

• const_seg

• data_seg

• init_seg

• section

Example

// allocate.cpp  
#pragma section("mycode", read)  
__declspec(allocate("mycode"))  int i = 0;  
  
int main() {  
}  

END Microsoft Specific

See Also

__declspec
Keywords