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Expand Up @@ -98,8 +98,12 @@ Yes:
* Type ID
* Count of locals
+ The serialized AST
* A `data` section contains
- A sequence of byte ranges within the binary and corresponding addresses in the linear memory


All strings are encoded as null-terminated UTF8.
Data segments represent initialized data that is loaded directly from the binary into the linear memory when the program starts (see [modules](Modules.md#initial-state-of-linear-memory)).

## Serialized AST

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Expand Up @@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ to allow *explicitly* sharing linear memory between multiple modules.

A module will contain a section declaring the linear memory size (initial and
maximum size allowed by [`resize_memory`](AstSemantics.md#resizing) and the
initial contents of memory (analogous to `.data`, `.rodata`, `.bss` sections in
native executables).
initial contents of memory,analogous to `.data`, `.rodata`, `.bss` sections in
native executables (see [binary encoding](BinaryEncoding.md#global-structure)

## Code section

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