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Re: linker behaviour for sections having flags SHF_MERGE/SHF_STRINGS

From: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at google dot com>
To: "shankarke at gmail dot com" <shankarke at gmail dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:40:34 -0800
Subject: Re: linker behaviour for sections having flags SHF_MERGE/SHF_STRINGS
References: <1352481270897-212583.post@n7.nabble.com> <20121110002640.GC3056@bubble.grove.modra.org>

>> $gold merge_test.o
>> $ readelf -p 2 a.out
>>
>> String dump of section '.rodata':
>>   [     0]  abc
>>   [     4]  c
>>
>> Question :-
>> Why is the difference ?
>
> Possibly a gold bug.

Try running gold with the -O2 option. By default, gold won't do the
trailing substring optimization.

-cary

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