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Re: What have you done to strings!
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- Cc: Russell Fulton <r dot fulton at auckland dot ac dot nz>, "binutils\ at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10:37:22 +0100
- Subject: Re: What have you done to strings!
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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.
Andreas.
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