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To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: beware of dead string constants
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[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>]
> gcc was never dropping such strings, I've commited a patch to fix
> this a week ago into CVS.

Cool!  What about block-scoped 'static' variables?  Do those get
garbage-collected now as well?

Peter
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