From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9803221510.AA14879@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Can the text section be made read-only?
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 09:10:24 -0600 (CST)
Cc: eldredge AT ap DOT net, cssl AT geocities DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980322160644.12221O-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Mar 22, 98 04:07:03 pm
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> I believe adding .data is not enough.  
...
> Charles, am I right here?

You are correct about adding .data not being quite enough (there also 
needs to be a corresponding lock call and determine the size of each
locked section properly) - but not the reason with the DS alias.
We have a flat address space so CS = DS (as far as base address)
So the sections only matter to the linker as far as where it puts
the variables/code.