> I noticed that init functions use many string constants. The code of
> those functions goes to special section and can be freed after
> initialization. But the strings go to the default .rodata and thus
> cannot be freed. Is it possible to change locally the default section
> for string constants so that the strings can be freed too?
Unfortunately, with current GCC it's impossible. I was working on a patch
for EGCS adding this feature, but I didn't have enough time to finish it yet.
Have a nice fortnight
-- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "First law of socio-genetics: Celibacy is not hereditary."