Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Wed Oct 29 08:46:00 GMT 2014

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> On 29 Oct 2014, at 09:42, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
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> Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> writes:
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>> 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.  So,
I think the compatibility argument is not pertinent.

Tristan.

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