The following table lists words reserved by the linker. You can use these names as arguments in module-definition statements only if you enclose the name in double quotation marks (").
Linker Reserved Words
| APPLOADER | INITINSTANCE | PRELOAD |
| BASE | IOPL | PROTMODE |
| CODE | LIBRARY | PURE |
| CONFORMING | LOADONCALL | READONLY |
| DATA | LONGNAMES | READWRITE |
| DESCRIPTION | MOVABLE | REALMODE |
| DEV386 | MOVEABLE | RESIDENT |
| DISCARDABLE | MULTIPLE | RESIDENTNAME |
| DYNAMIC | NAME | SEGMENTS |
| EXECUTE-ONLY | NEWFILES | SHARED |
| EXECUTEONLY | NODATA | SINGLE |
| EXECUTEREAD | NOIOPL | STACKSIZE |
| EXETYPE | NONAME | STUB |
| EXPORTS | NONCONFORMING | VERSION |
| FIXED | NONDISCARDABLE | WINDOWAPI |
| FUNCTIONS | NONE | WINDOWCOMPAT |
| HEAPSIZE | NONSHARED | WINDOWS |
| IMPORTS | NOTWINDOWCOMPAT | |
| IMPURE | OBJECTS | |
| INCLUDE | OLD |