All strings are in one section

[kinke]

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.