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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">What I usually do in this kind of situation, is adapt the linker scripts to also collect ‘</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.rodata</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">’
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Alternatively, you could use ‘</span><span style="font-family:"Courier New";mso-fareast-language:EN-US">objcopy</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">’
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> MartinO<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> cfe-dev [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces@lists.llvm.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Divya Muthukumaran via cfe-dev<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:03 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Clang Dev <cfe-dev@lists.llvm.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [cfe-dev] Can the .rodata section be avoided?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have to develop a research prototype where I want to avoid having the .rodata section. Is there any way of allocating string literals in .data instead? <o:p></o:p></p>
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