Why is a const array pointer with -fPIC mapped in ".data"?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 17, 2004, Richard Earnshaw <Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com> wrote:

> If you really want your PIC data tables to be read-only, don't put
> pointers in them.

Or use Jakub's recent patches that annotate portions of the data
segment as read-only-after-relocation, and use a dynamic loader that
uses the annotations and plays, erhm, page protection dances :-)

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