Omitting unused global variables

[ArC]

The bevaviour is the same for variables without manual section assignment.

It would be interesting to know whether other versions of link behave in the same way. Unfortunately I uninstalled my 2008 Express install in favour of 2010 so I can't check myself.

[bilbo]

Well, tried on VC6 (link 6.00.8168): exactly the same behaviour,
even if I remove the three lines

#pragma code_seg(SECTION_NAME)  // push not understood
#pragma comment(linker, "/SECTION:"SECTION_NAME",RWE")
__declspec(allocate(SECTION_NAME))

and put everyting in ".text" section

Regards, bilbo