Jeff Law wrote: > I wonder if the change to how we set up the initializers is ultimately > changing the section those go into and ultimately causing an overflow of > the .sdata section.
Yes, that is definitely the case. Due to the -fmerge-all-constants option used named arrays with brace initializer look like string initializers and can go into the merge section if there are no embedded nul chars. But the string constants can now be huge. See my other patch about string merging: [PATCH] Handle not explicitly zero terminated strings in merge sections https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2018-08/msg00481.html Can this section overflow? Bernd.
