Placing variable/array in a particular section

[Jens Bauer via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 13:58:21 UTC, Jens Bauer wrote:
> On Friday, 3 April 2015 at 13:37:50 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>> On 4/04/2015 2:12 a.m., Jens Bauer wrote:
>>> Is there a way of setting the target section for a variable 
>>> or an array ?
>>
>> Supposedly gdc supports it.
>>
>> [0] http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Using_GDC Extensions->Attributes
>> [1] 
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html#Variable-Attributes
>
> I tried to use some of the examples, but I got the following 
> error:
>
> src/start.d:7:10: error: module attribute is in file 
> 'gcc/attribute.d' which cannot be read
>    import gcc.attribute;
>           ^

Uhm, it seems that druntime is required for that; unfortunately 
it's not ported to the Cortex-M platform.
I found the attribute.d file and tried a quick copy-and-paste, 
but no luck there.