<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello, David<div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font>(My own position is that different objects should have guaranteed <br>different addresses. To alias them, a code generator must prove that <br>it wouldn't change observable behavior.)<br></div></blockquote></div>However, it's pretty common linker optimization to merge constant strings / small literal values. So, even if compiler itself won't merge them, they will be emitted into mergeable section and then linker will perform this optimization.</div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>---<br>With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov<br>Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University</div></div></div></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>