[cfe-dev] Can the .rodata section be avoided?

[ORiordan, Martin via cfe-dev]

What I usually do in this kind of situation, is adapt the linker scripts to also collect ‘.rodata’ input sections into the ‘.data’ output section, for example by changing:

SECTIONS
{
  ...
  .rodata 0 : { *(.rodata .rodata.*) }
  .data 0 : { *(.data .data.*) }
  ...
}
to:
SECTIONS
{
  ...
  /* .rodata 0 : { *(.rodata .rodata.*) } */
  .data 0 : { *(.data .data.* .rodata .rodata.*) }
  ...
}

Alternatively, you could use ‘objcopy’ to rename the ‘.rodata’ sections to the equivalent ‘.data’ sections.

            MartinO

From: cfe-dev [mailto:cfe-dev-bounces at lists.llvm.org] On Behalf Of Divya Muthukumaran via cfe-dev
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 10:03 AM
To: Clang Dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>
Subject: [cfe-dev] Can the .rodata section be avoided?

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?


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