Object file questions

[Timo Sintonen via D.gnu]

I have been looking at object files to see if I can reduce the 
memory usage for minimum systems. There are two things I have 
noticed:

1. In the data segment there is some source code as ascii text 
from a template in gcc/atomics.d . This is in the actual data 
segment and not in debug info segments and goes into the data 
segment of the executable. I do not see any code using this data. 
Why is this in the executable and is it possible to remove it?

2. In the data segment there is also __init for all types. I 
assume that they contain the initial values that are copied when 
a new object of this type is created. Is this data mutable and 
should it really be in data segment and not in rodata?