This trick isn't i386-specific. In general, you can merge .data, .rodata etc into one section with a linker script and it will just work, pretty useful for savi

This trick isn't i386-specific. In general, you can merge .data, .rodata etc into one section with a linker script and it will just work, pretty useful for saving a few bytes. Also see sstrip for ELF files and this legendary writeup https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.ht...