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What have you done to strings!

Tristan Gingold gingold@adacore.com
Wed Oct 29 10:20:00 GMT 2014 
> On 29 Oct 2014, at 10:37, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Point taken.
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