Is the section name _RDATA in jsvml.dll intended?

[dean.long at oracle.com]

This appears to be an artifact of the Intel compiler used to generate 
the assembly, not a bug.

dl

On 1/16/25 2:46 AM, Julian Waters wrote:
> While looking through the jsvml.dll library with dumpbin in
> preparation for converting MASM assembly into as assembly, I came
> across a strange section named _RDATA:
>
> C:\Program Files\Java\jdk-23\bin>dumpbin -nologo -SUMMARY jsvml.dll
>
> Dump of file jsvml.dll
>
> File Type: DLL
>
>    Summary
>
>          1000 .data
>          2000 .pdata
>          8000 .rdata
>          1000 .reloc
>          1000 .rsrc
>         48000 .text
>         81000 _RDATA
>
> This is rather strange as the literal _RDATA is not a known section
> name for Windows program images, and on top of that the actual .rdata
> section is already present in the dll, which leads me to suspect that
> this is a bug. Is the section name of _RDATA intended, or is it
> supposed to be named something else?
>
> best regards,
> Julian