https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88925
Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever confirmed|0 |1 Keywords| |lto, wrong-code Last reconfirmed| |2022-01-01 --- Comment #3 from Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gcc dot gnu.org> --- Confirmed. For what I think should happen is there should be a CONST_DECL which contains the string and is able to be pulled in and that is the address which gets put into _ZL12typeDerived2, etc. Note even with -fno-merge-constants on elf targets, strings are still put into the .rodata.str1.1 section so the linker is going to merge them anyways.