The purpose of section selection is to specify—by means of section selectors and except clauses—the sections that an ILINK directive should be applied to. All sections that match one or more of the section selectors will be selected, and none of the sections selectors in the except clause, if any. Each section selector can match sections on section attributes, section name, and object or library name.

Some directives provide functionality that requires more detailed selection capabilities, for example, directives that can be applied on both sections and blocks. In this case, the extended-selectors are used.

The following pages give detailed information about each linker directive specific to section selection.