https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91899
Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |amonakov at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #3 from Alexander Monakov <amonakov at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to Richard Biener from comment #2) > The question is why data1/2 live in .rodata rather than in the mergeable > strings section. Because they are named constant objects, not unnamed string literals, and therefore GCC cannot allow them to overlap at runtime by emitting them to a mergeable section... unless the compiler somehow proves that overlap is not observable?