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Understanding the Linker Map File (MS Visual Studio 2005)

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I am trying to understand the first section of a map file created by the MS Visual Studio 2005 linker. I know this has something to do with memory partitions, but can anyone help me decrypt it?

Timestamp is 4b4f8d2b (Thu Jan 14 14:31:23 2010)

Preferred load address is 00400000

Start         Length     Name                   Class
0001:00000000 0028b752H .text                   CODE
0002:00000000 000001b4H .idata$5                DATA
0002:000001b4 00000004H .CRT$XCA                DATA
0002:000001b8 00000004H .CRT$XCAA               DATA
0002:000001bc 00000004H .CRT$XCC                DATA
0002:000001c0 00000004H .CRT$XCZ                DATA
0002:000001c4 00000004H .CRT$XIA                DATA
0002:000001c8 00000004H .CRT$XIAA               DATA
0002:000001cc 00000004H .CRT$XIC                DATA
0002:000001d0 00000004H .CRT$XIZ                DATA
0002:000001d8 00025288H .rdata                  DATA
0002:00025460 00000004H .rdata$sxdata           DATA
0002:00025464 00000004H .rtc$IAA                DATA
0002:00025468 00000004H .rtc$IZZ                DATA
0002:0002546c 00000004H .rtc$TAA                DATA
0002:00025470 00000004H .rtc$TZZ                DATA
0002:00025478 0000007cH .xdata$x                DATA
0002:000254f4 00000028H .idata$2                DATA
0002:0002551c 00000014H .idata$3                DATA
0002:00025530 000001b4H .idata$4                DATA
0002:000256e4 00000542H .idata$6                DATA
0002:00025c26 00000000H .edata                  DATA
0003:00000000 000f070cH .data                   DATA
0003:000f0720 001f1280H .bss                    DATA
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Here is a good link. I searched for it myself, since MSDN does not seem to provide any information about them.

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These are only sections of objects that need to be combined into sections of images. Read on PE and COFF if you don't know what that means.

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