Jeff Law law@redhat.com
Wed Oct 29 12:41:00 GMT 2014

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On 10/29/14 02:46, Tristan Gingold wrote:
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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;
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>> Nowadays they are in .rodata.
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> 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.
Agreed.  Actually I've been using -a for the last 20+ years simply 
because I want to see all the strings regarldess of where in the file 
they might appear.

jeff

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