All strings are in one section

[Jack Applegame]

On Saturday, 27 February 2021 at 17:20:35 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 27 February 2021 at 14:46:55 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On linux LLVM puts most things in different sections, so they 
>> can be collected with --gc-sections linker option, but all 
>> strings still go in one section, and can't be collected 
>> individually. Is there a way to put strings in different 
>> sections? --data-sections option doesn't help.
>
> See this thread: 
> https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2020-September/145121.html
>
> Adding a `-fmerge-all-constants` option in case the linker 
> really isn't able to get rid of unused strings should be 
> trivial according to https://reviews.llvm.org/D45289.

Could you add -fno-merge-all-constants option, please?