What have you done to strings!

[Andreas Schwab]

Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:

>> On 29 Oct 2014, at 09:42, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
>> 
>>> Nowadays (and since 'const' is part of C), strings and const are in
>>> .text;
>> 
>> Nowadays they are in .rodata.
>
> Ok, in the code segment if you prefer.  But the point is that 35 years ago
> they would be displayed by strings, and nowadays you need strings -a.

strings is looking at .rodata by default.  In fact, strings looks at any
section that is allocated, loaded and has contents, which even includes
.text.

Andreas.

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