[Bug c/37506] New: attribute section is not working with constant strings

[Andrew Thomas Pinski]

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On Sep 13, 2008, at 2:04 AM, "nm127 at freemail dot hu" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org 
 > wrote:

> With the __attribute__ __section__ it is possible to allocate  
> variables to
> different section than the default (
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html ). In  
> case of the
> following source code I would achieve to allocate both "foo bar" and  
> "Hello
> World!" strings into the .xxx_section section:
>
> char x[] __attribute__ ((__section__(".xxx_section"))) = "foo bar";
> char* y __attribute__ ((__section__(".xxx_section"))) = "Hello  
> World!";
>
> int main() {
>        return 0;
> }
>
> However, with gcc version 4.3.1 (Debian 4.3.1-9) only the "foo bar"  
> string is
> stored in .xxx_section:
>
> $ objdump -s a.out
>
> a.out:     file format elf32-i386
> [...]
> Contents of section .rodata:
> 8048448 03000000 01000200 48656c6c 6f20576f  ........Hello Wo
> 8048458 726c6421 00                          rld!.
> [...]
> Contents of section .xxx_section:
> 8049568 666f6f20 62617200 50840408           foo bar.P...
>
>
> -- 
>           Summary: attribute section is not working with constant  
> strings
>           Product: gcc
>           Version: unknown
>            Status: UNCONFIRMED
>          Severity: normal
>          Priority: P3
>         Component: c
>        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
>        ReportedBy: nm127 at freemail dot hu
> GCC build triplet: 4.3.1
> GCC target triplet: i486-linux-gnu
>
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37506
>