[Bug tree-optimization/84011] Optimize switch table with run-time relocation

[jakub at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=84011

--- Comment #10 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Peter Cordes from comment #9)
> gcc already totally misses optimizations here where one string is a suffix
> of another.  "mii" could just be a pointer to the 3rd byte of "sgmii", but
> we instead duplicate all the characters.  That's where major savings are
> possible for this function.

??  That is the task for the linker SHF_MERGE|SHF_STRINGS handling.
Why should gcc duplicate that?