Hello, In the example below I would like the string literals "foo", "bar" and "baz" to reside in .mysection. This works when using a pointer variable ptr as shown for "baz". Is there any way to specify the output section of string literals in an initializer (e.g., "foo" and "bar") without using using a pointer variable? I'm looking for something like { "foo" MYSECTION, 1 }. #define MYSECTION __attribute__((section (".mysection"))) char const *const ptr MYSECTION = "baz"; struct { char const *string; unsigned number; } x[] MYSECTION = { { "foo", 1 }, { "bar", 2 }, { ptr, 3 }, }; Cheers, - Udo