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erik_seaberg on July 12, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Breaking java.lang.String

Isn’t the linker entitled to put a constant object in a read-only page of the binary if it doesn’t require a ctor at runtime?

kevincox on July 12, 2023 [–]

Yes. That is why global static `const`s (with exceptions like if they have mutable fields) can't legally have their `const` casted away.

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