How to refer to the start-of a user-defined segment in a Visual Studio-project?

Question

I\'m struggling to convert a C-program linked with ld, of the gnu tool-chain to make it compile as a visual-studio (2005) project. The program puts .data-symbols in differe

Answer 1

Create additional segments (they are placed in memory alphabetically):

#pragma data_seg("MY_DATA_FOO__a")
#pragma data_seg("MY_DATA_FOO__z")
#pragma data_seg("MY_DATA_FOO__m")

__declspec(allocate("MY_DATA_FOO__a")) int fooFirst;
__declspec(allocate("MY_DATA_FOO__z")) int fooLast;
__declspec(allocate("MY_DATA_FOO__m")) int foo1;
__declspec(allocate("MY_DATA_FOO__m")) int foo2;

Then copy everything between &fooFirst and &fooLast.