[Bug 139] GDC writes all-zero initialisers in the rodata section

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http://bugzilla.gdcproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139

Johannes Pfau <johannespfau at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Johannes Pfau <johannespfau at gmail.com> ---
Timo Sintonen noted that this is actually contra-productive at least on
embedded systems. .bss is read-write storage whereas .rodata can be in readonly
storage.
http://forum.dlang.org/post/nadodelkzuwtrnquoove@forum.dlang.org

I wonder whether the reason you don't see a difference in phobos is a string
pooling optimization: I'd expect a clever linker to combine all .zero blocks in
.rodata into one block with the size of the largest single block, then use
'slices' to that block.

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