Can the .rodata section be avoided?

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#1

I have to develop a research prototype where I want to avoid having the .rodata section. Is there any way of allocating string literals in .data instead?

#2

Why do you want to do that?

Joerg

#3

What I usually do in this kind of situation, is adapt the linker scripts to also collect ‘.rodata’ input sections into the ‘.data’ output section, for example by changing:

SECTIONS

{

…

.rodata 0 : { (.rodata .rodata.) }

.data 0 : { (.data .data.) }

…

}

to:

SECTIONS

{

…

/* .rodata 0 : { (.rodata .rodata.) } */

.data 0 : { (.data .data. .rodata .rodata.*) }

…

}

Alternatively, you could use ‘objcopy’ to rename the ‘.rodata’ sections to the equivalent ‘.data’ sections.

MartinO