GCC doesn't merge substrings
>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
>Organization: The Debian project
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: GCC doesn't merge substrings
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Category: optimization
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: 3.0 (Debian GNU/Linux) and HEAD 20010701
>Environment:
System: Debian GNU/Linux (testing/unstable)
Architecture: i686
host: i386-linux
build: i386-linux
target: i386-linux
configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f77,proto,objc --prefix=/usr --infodir=/share/info --mandir=/share/man --enable-shared --with-gnu-as --with-gnu-ld --with-system-zlib --enable-long-long --enable-nls --without-included-gettext --disable-checking --enable-threads=posix --enable-java-gc=boehm --with-cpp-install-dir=bin --enable-objc-gc i386-linux
>Description:
[ Reported to the Debian BTS as report #88959.
Please CC 88959-quiet@bugs.debian.org on replies.
Log of report can be found at http://bugs.debian.org/88959 ]
GCC doesn't merge the two strings in this program:
char *a = "This is a string";
char *b = "string";
.file "bug-88959.c"
.globl a
.section .rodata
.LC0:
.string "This is a string"
.data
.align 4
.type a,@object
.size a,4
a:
.long .LC0
.globl b
.section .rodata
.LC1:
.string "string"
.data
.align 4
.type b,@object
.size b,4
b:
.long .LC1
.ident "GCC: (GNU) 3.1 20010701 (experimental)"
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