Hi, Thanks for the reply. I did manage to stumble across the gcc internals doc. "in GENERIC"??? Is this the initial RTL output? Assuming the size does not bust through a processors offset addressing capabilities, something similar should be doable for accessing things in any section (clustered section access optimization). I just figure that string literals are far more common. Off the top of your head do you know what I would search for for something like: int im_a_global_int; which would be treated similarly to a string literal (at least as far as how it is accessed), right? kevin On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The preprocessor turns a string literal into a CPP_STRING token. The > parser turns that into a STRING_CST node in GENERIC. The RTL expander > stores the string constant into the constant pool and works with a > symbol pointing to the address. > > This and the various string literal optimizations are scattered across > various files. Search for CPP_STRING and STRING_CST to see the kinds of > things that gcc does. > > Ian >
