On 01/10/14 10:48, Clément Péron wrote: > After the link my string used will stay in my ELF :S I am quite baffled. Maybe there is some reason this doesn't work, but right now I can't think of what it might be. Unused strings are removed from static functions, as you'd expect. I can't think of any reason that each string should not be put into a unique section. It's need a unique name for each string, but that isn't hard. Andrew.